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Record W2256106888 · doi:10.5558/tfc2014-057

Donald A. Macdonald – Canada’s last Dominion Forester

2014· article· en· W2256106888 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Kenneth A. Armson

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Forestry Chronicle · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicForest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForesterDominionForestryButtressCommunity forestryForest managementGeographyArchaeology

Abstract

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The federal forest service, originating in 1899, began with Elihu Stewart as the chief inspector of timber and forestry and the title of Superintendent of Forestry; it grew to become the Dominion Forestry Branch. Until 1930 the main federal forest lands were in the western provinces where major agricultural settlement was taking place and the main priorities were fire protection and tree planting. In 1924, E.H. Finlayson a 1912 graduate in forestry became the first Dominion Forester; he was succeeded by D. Roy Cameron as the second Dominion Forester and when he left in 1947 Donald Angus Macdonald became the third and last Dominion Forester until his retirement in 1956. Macdonald’s career bridged the early period of the federal forestry branch’s activities of forest management and protection and into the post 1930s when the priorities were on research and the establishment of experimental forests. Following World War II Macdonald was instrumental in the crafting of the Canada Forestry Act of 1949, which led to the implementation of major provincial forestry activities such as forest inventories, regeneration and forest protection. It was followed by a succession of federal–provincial agreements, which have left an underpinning for forestry across the nation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.151
Threshold uncertainty score0.304

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2014
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