THE FOREST RESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 



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HUNGARY. 



FOREST AREA AND COMPOSITION. 



According to the latest figures available, the forest area of Hungary 

 is 18,692,000 acres. In this are not included the forests of Croatia 

 and Slavonia, which are a part of Hungary. The forests of Croatia 

 and Slavonia include 3,769,000 acres. Since 1885 the forest area of 

 Hungary, with Croatia and Slavonia, has decreased by 54,000 acres. 

 In the northern part (in the Carpathian Mountains) the forests are 

 chiefly hard woods, consisting of beech (1,463,400 acres), oak 

 (1,374,300 acres), pine and spruce (1,776,600 acres), birch (72,900 

 acres), poplar and willow (27,000 acres), alder, maple, and locust 

 (203,000 acres). The hard-wood forests of the Carpathian Mountains 

 are managed as high forest and yield timber of excellent quality. 



Hard woods also predominate in the forests of eastern Hungary. 

 The principal species there are beech (5,891,400 acres), oak (2,772,900 

 acres), spruce and pine (2,421,300 acres), birch (283,500 acres), 

 willow and poplar (64,500 acres), alder, maple, elm, locust, basswood, 

 and larch (70,200 acres). 



The lowland forests are mainly of poplar, willow, oak, locust, and 

 beech, in all about 580,500 acres. In the forests of the western part, 

 between the rivers Danube and Drave, hard woods also prevail. 

 Beech occupies 596,700 acres, oak 866,700 acres, spruce and pine 

 2,800 acres, willow and poplar 89,800 acres, birch 86,400 acres, all 

 other species 72,900 acres. 



The areas under different species show clearly that Hungary is 

 principally a hard-wood region, while Austria is principally a conif- 

 erous region in which conifers form 82 per cent of the total forest. 



Of Hungarian forests 1,182,600 acres are proclaimed as protection 

 forests; 272,100 acres are on shifting sand; 16,889,800 acres are on 

 forest land proper; while 4,116,500 acres are on soil which can not be 

 called absolute forest land. 



The forests of Croatia and Slavonia, -which form the southern part 

 of Hungary, extend between the rivers Drave and Save, and consist 

 chiefly of hard woods. Coniferous forests occupy only 456,300 acres 

 out of 3,769,000 acres of the total forest area. 



Following are the areas occupied by the different species for Hun- 



iry and Croatia and Slavonia separately and for the Hungarian 



om: 



Distribution of forests by States and for Kingdom. 



Thus the Kingdom of Hungary has 26.8 per cent of the total forest 

 area under oak, 52.2 per cent under beech and other hard- wood 

 species, 20.8 per cent under conifers, and 0.2 per cent underbrush. 



