NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



yield from existing woods, to afforest 1,770,000 

 acres in eighty years, 1,180,000 being planted 

 during the next forty years as follows: 

 150,000 acres planted by the State; 50,000 

 acres of denuded areas to be restocked; 

 25,000 acres to be planted by private indi- 

 viduals and local authorities; 25,000 acres to 

 be proceed shares; making a grand total of 

 250,000 acres. 



The cost of this work is estimated at 

 3,425,000 for ten years, and during forty 

 years it is approximated by the Committee 

 that 15,000,000 may require to be invested 

 in the undertaking. In view of the scarcity 

 of timber in the United Kingdom since the 

 war began, and the great difficulty experi- 

 enced in obtaining the very large amount of 

 pit-props wanted to allow coal-mining to be 

 carried on as desired for the next ten years, 

 the percentages of the total area under wood 

 of different European countries, given by the 

 Committee, are interesting, and fully confirm 

 their findings and recommendations. The 

 following percentages of total area under 



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