Excerpt from Royal Commission on Forestry in Ontario Preliminary Report: Dec. 10th, 1897 Mr. Rathbun was elected chairman of the Commission, and Mr. Kirkwood vice-chairman, Mr. Southworth having previously been appointed secretary by Order in Council. The organization meeting of the Commission was attended by the attorney-general and the Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands. The attorney-general gave his views as to the scope of the enquiry to be under taken, and defined the object of the Government in appointing the Commission to be the submission of a scheme for the reclamation of large areas of non agricultural land, now unproductive, and such suggestions for the carrying on of future lumbering operations, as the information obtained by them would indicate to be desirable as a means of preventing similar land now wooded from becoming waste. 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.