55© Forestry Quarterly. 



Population Forest 



Land Area Forest Area Forest i,ooo per per 



square miles i,ooo acres percent, total sq. mi. capita 



Asiatic Russia 6,166,000 1,363,240 36 15-683 2.5 86 



European Russia 2,208,000 461,37s 34 133.617 60.5 3.4 



8,374,000 1,824,615 35 149,300 17.8 12.15 



Uneven distribution of forest and population are striking. In 

 European Russia 21 districts show below i acre per capita as 

 against 325 in Archangelsk, 52 in Wologda, and 38 in Olonetz, 

 the forest counties. Similarly the forest per cent, varies from 

 0.82 to 82. Next to these forest counties, Finland with 46,956.800 

 acres forest and only 2,857,000 people is the most densely wooded 

 large section of the country both per capita (16 acres) and in 

 forest per cent. (59). 



Central A.sia compares in forest per cent. (3.8) with the plains 

 country of Southern Russia, while Siberia with 45%, varying 

 from 20 to 91, resembles Northern Russia. Here, with 216 acres 

 per capita over a total area of 4.8 million square miles, a large 

 surplus of woodland is found. Nothing is said beyond the figures, 

 hence we cannot judge as to the timber value of this large forest 

 area. The actual productive forest soil, however, is stated in 

 round numberr as 210, y.y and 218 million acres respectively in 

 Europe, Caucasia and Asia, or altogether 436 million acres. 



The first volume brings in 9 chapters the details of administra- 

 tion. The forest service is in the Ministry of Agriculture under 

 one director and loio employees ; the provincial administrations 

 occupy 340 higher officials, 990 Oberforsters, 1720 assistants, al- 

 together 3059 employees. Lately the size of the districts have 

 been greatly reduced, the number of district officers having been 

 trebled from 741 to 2,363, more than half of these in Asia. The 

 area under government administration is about five million acres 

 less than one round billion, of which one-quarter in European 

 Russia. If, however, muskeags and tundra are excluded to the 

 extent of 175 million acres, the average forest district in Europe 

 comprises 165,000 acres, in Caucasia 130,000, and in Asia 3,330,- 

 000 acres. It is recognized that these districts are too large, and 

 for the next decade the formation of 1,000 new districts is pro- 

 vided. Under the district officers there are 25,274 forest guards 

 in Europe, 1,864 i" Caucasus, in Asia 6,801, making the average 



