NELSON'S BIRCH FORESTS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15024, 19 March 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

NELSON'S BIRCH FORESTS.

_Mr. F. G. Gibbs, on behalf of the Nelson Forestry League, urged that a forestry expert should be engaged to report on the question of transforming the birc-h forests in the Nelson district into timber forests. Mr. Hutchins had expressed,.the opinion that the transformation could be effected, but experiments would be required. Mr.' Hutchins suggested that the work should be carried out by the Government. If successful,, many worthless areas would be converted into valuable timber country.

In reply to Mr. Craigie, Mr. Gibbs =aid that the land on which the birch trees were growing was not suitable for agricultural purposes. By Mr. Forbes: Mr. Hutebins recomended the planting of trees from abroad.