Forest Fires in Canada (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Forest Fires in Canada The loss which Canada has suffered from forest fires during the past century is beyond comprehension. The actual extent of the waste is hard to ascertain, but the data given below will show in a general manner the degree to which the wealth of the country has suffered through the burning of timber. Condition at time of Settlement. The first settlers in Canada found a country densely covered with a magnificent forest growth, and as they travelled through the vast wilderness they felt that the whole country was as heavily wooded as the eastern provinces, which they then knew, and that such great forests could never be exhausted. It is little wonder that the Canadian people, whose forefathers lived and died fighting the forest and the enemies it sheltered, and whose every generation has known the slow agony of clearing the land of encumbering timber, it is little wonder that such a people are slow to realize that the forest, so long an enemy, now needs protection, and that the timber resources of the country, so long overwhelming, are now so comparatively small that they will be, unless carefully and wisely handled, inadequate for the future demands of the country. Two causes have brought about this change in the public attitude towards the timberlands: first, the discovery that Canada was never so heavily timbered as is generally supposed; and secondly, the unfortunate fact that of the timber which originally covered the land, far more than half has been destroyed by fire. Classification of Lands in Canada. As regards forest cover Canada is broadly divided into the following five distinct classes of land: - Barren Lands. The barren lands cover an area of approximately 000,000 square miles of the northern part of the Dominion, and are treeless because of the Arctic climate. Semi-Treeless Lands. South of the barren lands lies an area of about 700,000 square miles which is only sparsely wooded. In this country forest is found only along the watercourses. As a source of timber for commercial use in regions now uninhabited, this forest is of little or no value. It is. however, of the utmost importance to the travellers and fur traders who frequent the region, and is necessary for the protection of the game which is here the support of life and the basis of trade. When the mineral and agricultural possibilities of this country are developed, these scattered areas of timber will be invaluable. Inland Lakes and Area Above Timber Line. The lake area is scattered throughout Canada, but enters most largely into the composition of the country in the forest belt stretching from northern Quebec to the Mackenzie valley. The area above timberline is located in Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon Territory. The total area occupied by mountains above timberline and inland lakes is approximately 300,000 square miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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