FORESTRY IN FRANCE. 
By Major F. Barney, R.E. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE WOODS AND FORESTS OF FRANCE. 
In 1876, the last year for which anything like complete details are 
available, the total wooded area of France, exclusive of isolated 
trees, such as those growing in parks and on roadsides, which were 
not planted for the sake of the timber they produce, amounted to 
35,464 square miles, or a little more than 17 per cent. of the entire 
area of the country. The proportion in other European countries 
is as follows, viz. :— 
Russia, - : : : 40 per cent. 
Sweden, ; ; : : 34 ee 
Norway, : : : : 294 i 
Germany, 26 +: 
Turkey, 22 5 
Switzerland, . 18 3 
Greece, E : : 14 Er. 
Spain, Belgium, and Holland, each 7 x 
Portugal, 5 a 
The British Isles, 4 53 
Denmurk, 34 outs 
The average of all the European States, taken together, is 294 
per cent. The population of France being 181 per square mile, it 
follows that the area of woodland per head is about three-fifths of 
an acre. 
Some changes, which will be noted in a subsequent chapter, 
have taken place in the area of the State forests since 1876, but in 
