PERIODICAL LITERATURE 



FOREST GEOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION 



M. Tkatchenko, of the Russian Forest 



Timber Department, had a paper under this title 



of before the International Engineering Con- 



Russia gress in San Francisco. In Forestry 



Quarterly, vol. xiii, p. 402, we had briefed 



the last official statement regarding Russia's forest resources 



quite fully, and will note here only such additions as appear 



in the advance copy of the above mentioned paper (24 pages). 



The statistics do not always gibe, which may often be due to 

 dififerences in translating measures and to the uncertainty of 

 all Russian statistics. 



As to area, the present author's statements are slightly (16 

 million acres) lower than the official ones. The forest per 

 cent over the whole European and Asiatic territory is 37, and 

 8 acres per capita. In Finland, the forest per cent is 45. 

 The distribution is very uneven, from 50 to 82 per cent in the 

 northern, falling to 1-1.5 per cent in the Steppe country. 



Ownership statistics also vary considerably. In Asiatic Russia, 

 the national forests in the official statement are given as 253 

 million acres, or 75 per cent, in Tkatchenko's statement 772 

 million, or 90 per cent. 



The description of forest conditions is divided into four sec- 

 tions, namely the forests of the northern country, those of other 

 provinces of European Russia, those of the Caucasus, and those 

 of Asiatic Russia. Under each heading, the distribution of 

 species, mechanical properties and commercial uses, methods of 

 lumbering, and management and yield are touched upon. 



The best yields in the North country of the two principal 

 species are stated as follows for best soils : 



Volume 

 Height Diameter per Acre 

 Age Feet Inches Cubic Feet 



Scotch pine 100 88 12 7075 



Spruce 100 90 12 7650 



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