Wednesday, March 30, 19

by The Honorable RAY WILLISTON
Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources

The tree is one of the great ;
gifts of a Crestor ever-mindful Appropriately enough, British
of the welfare of mankind.” Columbia's more than 400,000

So writes G. Herbert Lash in the | school-children will learn a Little
opening of his booklet, “The In-| more of their forest heritage in
credible Tree.” Mr. Lash was writ-|a series of special ceremonies at
ing with the whole of Canada in schools throughout the province
mind, but nowhere in the nation |this spring. The ceremonies will
is his observation more true than|Mmark the planting of Centennial
in British Columbia where our|trees in a joint commemoration of
forests are the very foundation of British Columbia's and Canada’s
our economy. centennials, and are being arrang-

A full awareness of the import-|ed by the Forest Service in co-op-
ance of our forests to our future is {¢rtion with the department of ed-
essential and the earlier the age |jUcation and the British Columbia
at which one gains this awareness |Centennial committee.
| the better. Each schoo] will receive a two-

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B.C.’s Forest Heritage To Be Highlighted

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Initlated by the Gavernment of British Columbia Approved by the Doctors of British Columbia

The Honourable W. A. C. Bannett, LL.D,, Premier of British Columbia
The Honourable Wesley D. Black, Provincial Secretary

‘| of our province in the 100 years? 8

|self. Ag the industry grew througi#

‘| sign, new products that reflect th

year-old seedling of the speci
which has played the largest pa:
in the forest economy of the
Schools in the northern Int
will receive Interior spruce, thosam
in the northern Coastal region Sag

ka spruce, in the southern Coast
region Coastal Douglas fir, and
the southern Interior the Interi
Douglas fir. pos
It ig hard to tell just what 19

immediate impact will be on tf

students, for, while a tree is mafia
things to a youngster, I am sure@ay
is not an economic symbol. Ratti
it is a place to hide behind Hm
run around, a thing to climb 4
sit under of a summer’s day, Um
exciting sound on a windy day, 4
a place where birds sit and sing tam
but, most surely, to a yOUngsii
jt ig not a marketable commod sam
Perhaps the students will haviieem
pride of ownership in their 1
trees and develop a speculative:
terest in our forest industiy:
Perhaps they will look to {
tree for the symbol of the progr

its being — and for the symbol.
our future. i
If they will, they can look b!
inte y ay when the {org

_ {provided the pioneers with m; iM

of the comforts and necessities: tammy
life. It gave those pioneers tia
cabing and homes, and kept tht
warm. It provided boats and bri,
es, and plank roads. It fenced :
farms and settlements, and fas,
the bastions of their first fo
Within the forest, they hunted symm
fished, and later they establisl a
an infant export market when {4
first lumber mills began shipmer9
to Europe and Asia, and to oth

areas of the Americas.
Today the forest still is respo.
aible for many of the comforts ar;;
necessities of life, but our ass’
ciation is less direct — our gial;
forest industry does for us wh
once the individual did for hin

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the years, the products of the foi}
est became more refined and var,

ed. Now from our forests we dailj
gain miracles in chemistry and dj

progress of our day —~ fabrics ant
dyes, oils and chemicals, pulp ar}
paper, and plywood and beams &
astounding proportions have bed
added to the original little list #
logs and lumber. Today, we valui™
the forest for its recreational usey
for its conservation of wildlifz
and as a background to our thrill
ing tourist trade. ;

This is quite a story to expect]
two-yearold seedling to tell if
young audience and it is possib
the whole story will not be to;
this spring — but both will groj
with the years, so there is alwa
tomorrow,

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