. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. The Regina Meeting. 113 Mr. Knechtel's experiments were suc- cessful it would cost a million dollars for twenty townships. Would it not be better to reserve the timber land now- existing and spend the money in in- creasing the planting which nature has done? Mr. Ross called attention to the water- shed knowm as the Eastern Slope of the Rockies. This contained 8,224 square miles, most of which was wholly vmsuit- ed for agriculture. He quoted from a report of Inspector MacMillan, who asked if common lumber cost S22 per M. i
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. The Regina Meeting. 113 Mr. Knechtel's experiments were suc- cessful it would cost a million dollars for twenty townships. Would it not be better to reserve the timber land now- existing and spend the money in in- creasing the planting which nature has done? Mr. Ross called attention to the water- shed knowm as the Eastern Slope of the Rockies. This contained 8,224 square miles, most of which was wholly vmsuit- ed for agriculture. He quoted from a report of Inspector MacMillan, who asked if common lumber cost S22 per M. in the prairies now with a million population, what wculd it cost w^hen there is a population of ten million, when most of the forest land had been paper, Mr. R. H. Campbell, Dominion Superintendent of Forestry,pointed out the importance of the reserves to the country and to every individual in it. Some people were apt to think of the reserves as an academic subject; but if it w^ere considered seriously any one must come to the conclusion that the question of timber supply and forest reserves was one of great interest to all. There was no one who did not depend upon the products of the forest for con- veniences and comforts of all kinds. In spite of all substitutes, more wood was being used to-day than ever before, and in spite of substitutes that necessity would be constantly increasing. When one came to look into the matter of wood. Picnic Party on shore of Fish Lake, Moose Mountain Forest Reserve, Sask. cut and burned o\er? The coal mining industry of Alberta would require forty- five billion feet of mine props, the pro- duct of nine million acres for sixty years. This said nothing of railways, settlers and other requirements. These facts, along with the need of irrigation, show the need for turning the Eastern Slope into a Forest Reserve before it was too late. Discussion of Paper of Mr. A. H. D. Ross. In opening the discussion on the iPlioto by A. Kncuhtel (August, 1909) su
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