Lakehead University Forestry Association - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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continent. Harvesters with processing capabilities utilizing a series of remote sensing tree shears are on the drawing boards along with other increasingly large and sophisticated machines. Such machines are designed to offset a critical manpower shortage and keep Canadian forest products competitive in the market place. However, the effect of such machines on the environment is unknown and therefore worthy of continued close study. Across Canada, provincial and federal agencies charged with Forest Management responsibilities, are re-assessing their Regulations in the light of conflicting demands by various segments of society. In the light of the energy situation, their first priority can be nothing less than ensuring the renewal of the forests. Rising controversy over the allocation of resources within the forest industry, and recent panic over fibre scarcity calls for a detailed inventory study to assure present customers of a reliable source of supply. If your University career has meant anything to you at all, it has equipped you with the qualities which enable you to make large contributions in times such as these. Change is never easy, but by debating such changes in the light of what you have been taught, you will serve your School and employer as an ambassador of good will. There is no profession which has a greater opportunity than ours. However, if you sit back apathetically and wait for the opportunity to serve, it will never come. Resolve now to seek out a full life of usefulness in the kind of work which best suits your temperment, and give leadership commensurate with your capabilities. True satisfaction does not come with the attainment of prominence unless it can be measured in service to your fellow men. Enthusiasm and love of your work are essential ingredients for success. Congratulations and be assured of our continued interest in you as a graduate of this School. J. H. Blair

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1974 YEARBOOK MESSAGE It gives me great pleasure to be asked to write a message to the 1974 Graduating Classes. This includes those students who wijt leave with the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry, as well as those who will be awarded a Diploma or Certificate in the Technology Programs. It is no easy world into which you are entering. Already in this decade Canadians and other peoples of the world are being made aware that certain natural resources, thought to be in plentiful supply, are in reality in alarmingly short supply. I am referring to the evidence that indicates that Canada s reserve ' energy supplies under the husband of several seemingly sophisticated management agencies, have been allowed to drop substantially below what was officially considered necessary to protect Canada ' s future needs. In Ontario, as elsewhere, changing sociological patterns are exerting great pressures on a diminishing natural forest environment. These pressures are in the form of an accelerating rate of consumptic fibre by the wood-using industry, along with unrelenting demands for larger recreation and wilderness areas. Throughout Canada, as elsewhere, there are the optimists who express the view that technology can overcome every problem. The Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry ' s increase in utilization of wood residue from 270,000 cunits in 1952 to an estimated 6,730,000 cunits or 29% of the total cunsumption in 1971 can only be regarded as encouraging. Increased utilization of hardwoods for pulpwood and building material is another way in which the pressures on softwood supplies are being mollified. Substantially increased yields per acre are being experienced through the introduction of tree length and full operations. This development will :hippers into harvesting serve to extend existing wood supplies. Other dramatic changes are taking place - helicopter and? balloon logging is being experimented with on an increasing scale under different conditions throughout this

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Supper, Forestry Style Is this Deliverance