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Title: Canadian forestry journal
Identifier: canadianforestry1012canauoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa) : Canadian Forestry Association
Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, ipi6.
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Experiments With Reindeer The Story of Canada's Efforis to Introduce a X'aluable Animal to New Forms of Service. The connecton of reindeer and forest conservation is not so remote as first thoughts might indicate. As mentioned in a recent number of the Journal, Mr. Ellwood Wilson. Chief Forester of the Laurentide Com- pany, Grand Mere, P.O., has suc- ceeded in domesticating a remnant of the herd brought to Canada through the efforts of Dr. Wilfrid Grenfell, and these have come through the past winter remarkably well and will probably show an in- crease. Last year the deer showed their practical value in browsing off the hardwood seedlings in planta- tions where the forester wanted evergreens only to grow. Many de- vices were tried in an effort to get rid of the hardwoods. The reindeer finally were turned in and devoured the hardwoods refusing to touch the conifers. That these animals were to be used for logging, or for winter travel in various woods op- erations and forest protection, is a happy theory which has not had much opportunity for demonstra- tion. The following article by Aubrey Fullerton in April "Rod and Gun" gives most interesting information on the reindeer question: Five years ago a novel experiment was made by the Dominion Govern- ment in the way of wilderness col- onization in the far Northwest. It was animal colonization, rather than human, but its success was likely to mean a great deal to the people who might settle there at some future time. For these new animal colon- ists were reindeer.

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