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     or lynx once found, is now extinct. “’olves have been 
     
     known to cross the Northumberland Straits on the ice to the 
     
     Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The forests of Prince Edward Island once exten~ 
     
     sive and mantling the country to the water's edge, 
     
     now consist of small isolated areas. The woodman’s axe. 
     
     forest fires and the fore-time prosperous ship-building 
     
     industry have swept away the “ Forest primeval“, leaving but 
     
     insignificant growths of the cone-bearing, soft wood species, 
     
     the commonest being the balsam, fir or var, and spruce ; and 
     
     still less of pine, larch, maple, poplar, beech, birch and 
     
     cedar. An approximate of the area of forest and woodland 
     
     in 1894 was: Forest and Woodland, 797 square miles, 
     
     woodland 39.85 per cent. Much of this, though wooded, is 
     
     covered with small growth only. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Forestry 
     
    
   
   
    
     By an Act of the Legislature passed in 1903, a Forestry 
     
     Commission was appointed for the purpose of the protection 
     
     and afforestation of such crown and private lands as may be 
     
     suitable for timber culture and forestry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Drainage, Acts were passed in 1881, 1895, and 1898, for 
     
     Dyking. etc. the appointment of Commissioners of Sewers and 
     
     the reclamation of the large tracts of marsh land that exist 
     
     throughout the Province, for the purpose of rendering the 
     
     same available for cultivation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As a result of such legislation, Aboideaux (which have 
     
     been more or less successful) have been constructed at the 
     
     under-mentioned places :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Length Acreage drained 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mount Stewart 100 feet 500 
     
     Fullerton’s Marsh 300 “ 120 
     
     Dunk River 100 “ 220 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pisqnid River (not completed) 
     
    
   
   
    
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