. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March, 1896 THE GJL1XJLJDJL LUMBERMAK s of species was small and it might not be worth while to form them into a separate division rank- ing with the the other groups. From the above facts we are not surprised to find that the trees of any district constitute a good indication of its climate. Indeed, they are a far better guide than long tables of meteorologi- cal observations. Locally, they also give us some indication of the nature of the soil, but this is of v
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. March, 1896 THE GJL1XJLJDJL LUMBERMAK s of species was small and it might not be worth while to form them into a separate division rank- ing with the the other groups. From the above facts we are not surprised to find that the trees of any district constitute a good indication of its climate. Indeed, they are a far better guide than long tables of meteorologi- cal observations. Locally, they also give us some indication of the nature of the soil, but this is of very limited application and may be mis- leading. For example, a fine maple and beech forest, which usually indicates good land, often grows among boulders, or on flat limestone rocks ; and, on the other hand, we have the finest lands in the west where there are no maples or beeches, nor indeed trees of any kind. The lecturer next referred to the splendid forests which formerly covered the lake peninsula of Upper Canada, where, on almost any farm- lot of 100 or 200 acres, before it was cleared, one might count fifty or more species of native trees. This Canada of ours used to be contemptuously called a "wooden country," and the trees were looked upon as the enemies of the settler, but it did not require many years to change all that, and now the splendid trees of valuable timber which were so indiscriminately and recklessly destroyed, if they had been spared, would be worth more than the land itself to-day. As yet no steps worth mentioning had been taken in Canada to replant trees or to cultivate forests. In fact, we are only beginning to try to prevent waste in lumbering, or even the need- less wholesale destruction of forests by fires. There were, however, fires of a certain kind, es- pecially in our extensive northern forests, over which we had but little control, namely, those caused by lightning, and which were described as a natural phenomenon that had existed fr
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