38 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
are at present difficult of access they form a large reserve that will ulti- 
mately be utilized. 
The forests of the temperate zone comprise the second region. They 
contain the bulk of the valuable merchantable timber for which Quebec 
is famous, and may be sub-divided into three types, the Laurentian, the 
St. Lawrence, and the Allegheny. 
Laurentian Area.—The Laurentian forest area is estimated to con- 
tain 75,000,000 acres. For a hundred years lumbering has been carried 
A typical stand of spruce in the lake St. John district, Province of Quebec 
on in this area. This country, which attracts so many tourists, contains 
numerous beautiful lakes and rivers well adapted to log driving The 
principal species are spruce, pine, cedar, tamarack, maple, birch, ash, 
elm, basswood, and poplar. With the gradual removal of white pine and 
the spruces, the hardwood species, floatable for short distances, are assum- 
ng greater importance. It is estimated that only 75 per cert of this 
area is now capable of vielding merchantable timber o