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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC

Fire protection on licensed lands is maintained individually by the
licensees or by means of co-operative forest protective associations. Six
such organizations have been formed in Quebec, patrolling about 250,000
square miles of privately held. timber lands. The total patrol staff of
these six organizations exceeds 1,800 men and the total number of inspectors,
 rangers and assistants employed by the Government and by the
associations in 1927 for protection against fire was 4,125. The six cooperative
 associations which have been incorporated as limited liability
joint stock companies are the Laurentian, the Ottawa River, the Lower
Ottawa, the St. Maurice, the Southern St. Lawrence, and the Price
Brothers, Forest Protective Associations. All associations maintain permanently
 manned lookout towers connected by telephone lines, a system
of continuous ground patrol, and also a highly efficient staff of fire inspectors
and rangers.
Air planes are now used extensively in forest patrol work both by the
Government and by the individual licensees. Five hundred and fourteen
fires were extinguished in 1927, and the sum of $1,257,092.78 was expended
during. the season of 1927 for protection of the forests.
Reforestation.—The Government of Quebec is giving much attention-
 to réforestation.. The outstanding problems in connection with
reforestation are, first. a supply of seedlings: second, the planting of waste

Reforestation—One vear transplants and older trees