88 TIMBER REQUIREMENTS 



Arctic Ocean ports, North Sea, Baltic and English 

 Channel ports ; and the west coast of England, 

 Scotland, and the Irish ports. The western coasts 

 of France, Portugal, and Spain fall within this area 

 and also into the Mediterranean one. 



The forests supplying these ports were Russia, 

 Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium (before the 

 war), France, and Germany ; with smaller amounts 

 from Portugal, Spain, and Austria-Hungary. Of these 

 countries, the most important are Russia, Sweden, 

 Norway, Germany, and France. Russia sent us the 

 most and France the least in 1913. The rest of 

 the countries enumerated are negligible for our 

 present purpose. We will consider the above five 

 in sequence. 



Russia. Russia sent us something over a third 

 of our total forestry imports in 1913. She had 

 taken the lead of the countries exporting to us, 

 displacing Sweden, who formerly held pride of place. 

 Russia has vast untapped forests of soft woods, 

 covering a larger area than any other country in 

 the world can show. The areas comprise some 

 thirteen hundred odd million acres, of which 

 447,500,000 acres fall in Russia in Europe, 62,800,000 

 acres in Finland, whilst Siberia and Turkestan have 

 853,000,000 acres. 1 We are only concerned here 

 with the northern part of this area i.e. North 

 European Russia, Finland, and Northern Siberia. 

 This great tract of country contains vast forests of 

 soft woods (pines, firs, and larches of the trade) 



1 I have dealt with these Ruspian forests in detail in Part II 

 ol British Forestry. 



