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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 inspec- 
tors, rangers and assistants employed by the Government and by the 
associations in 1927 for protection against fire was 4,125. The six co- 
operative 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 per- 
manently 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 atten- 
tion- 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