Excerpt from Canadian Forestry Journal, 1914, Vol. 10 Dr. B. E. Fernow, dean of the Faculty of Forestry of Toronto University, in his report on the Trent watershed, showed the serious consequences which have followed the agricultural settlement of a district which, for the most part, was essentially non-agricultural in character. The soil having quickly become impoverished from cultivation, the people who remained on the poorer lands were existing under undesirable economic conditions. Repeated fires had destroyed a young growth having a potential stumpage value of millions of dollars, besides facilitating erosion and so changing the composition of the forest that its possible future value was greatly decreased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.