WHY WE HAVE TREES

The Environmental non-government organizations claim the forestry companies are "destroying" the forests

They show photographs taken "right after" a logging operation. This leaves a false impression of "there will be no more trees" in Northern Ontario (or in cuts elsewhere in Canada).

A good question to ask these ENGO's is:

 " Where did these trees that were cut come from?"

Without getting "poetical" about it , sometimes God gets help.

"ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION ON LIMITS OF LONGLAC PULP AND PAPER COMPANY LIMITED"  , Log Book, September - October 1953 , page 4

By E. R. Humphreys

"The principle of the regeneration programme is that the cut-over land must be reforested to a new crop of desirable species. To attain this objective, Longlac Pulp and paper Company have, during the past 3 years, planted more than 9,000,000 ( nine million) spruce and pine seedlings, scattered cone-bearing jack-pine branches over more than 2,000 (two thousand) acres of cut-over, conducted extensive research in artificial and natural regeneration, laid out seeded blocks, scruffled before logging and always emphasized the protection of advanced growth during logging operations."

"Last but not least, a course on Conservation has been given to Longlac school children, to prepare the citizens of tomorrow."

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"It becomes necessary to employ artificial means when nature fails to do the job for us. Nature fails because of one or more of the following conditions are absent:

• Suitable seed bed
• Seed or source of seed
• Desirable species

"Suitable seed bed and seed must be present to produce a new timber crop. It is often the absence of these two conditions that causes failure. It is usually these two condidtions which govern the artificial method to be employed. Site controls the species but seed and seed bed control the method."

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"In drafting the regeneration programme for the years to come, it is essential to know how much and what species of natural stocking will be present in five, ten, fifteen or more years after logging."

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 "In the practice of forestry, artificial and natural regeneration becomes part of the logging plan."

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"It is true that  tree planting requires more than a strong back and a weak mind, for here is the ground work for one hundred years of forest growth and it cannot be corrected after it is done incorrectly. It is just as easy to plant a tree correctly as incorrectly."

This was a long article. I have only pulled a few paragraphs to show how the "company" was planning for the future...where we are now sixty years later.

 Look at your forest and thank these men for what you see.

Use their legacy at maturity and pay it forward with your regeneration plans.