184 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



British Guiana 



Fifty million of the land acres of British Guiana are covered with 

 forest growth, 99 per cent, of it belonging to the crown, which 

 follows a policy of holding lands with valuable growth. The forestry 

 laws allow the leasing of lands for short terms and under restrictions. 

 A forestry office has been created and filled by a trained technical 

 forester, who, with a small staff, conducts investigations into the 

 forest conditions of the country. 



British Honduras 



Estimates of forest area in British Honduras set the acreage at 

 about three and three-quarter million acres, about 60 per cent, in 

 private ownership. The country is an exporter of valuable wood, par- 

 ticularly mahogany, and has a small domestic consumption. Although 

 no system has been applied to the exploitation of the forests in the 

 past, there is an active movement on foot to establish a department in 

 charge of this work. 



British West Indies 



Forests in the British West Indies, including Bermuda, total 

 about 1,700,000 acres, varying from the considerable stand of 735,000 

 acres on the Island of Trinidad to the denuded condition of some of 

 the smaller islands. Jamaica supports a growth of about 400,000 acres 

 of merchantable timber. For the most part there is little organization 

 of the forestry activities in the British West Indes except on Trinidad 

 and Tobago where the large percentage of crown lands carries a power 

 of control over operations. 



Bulgaria 



Seven and one-half million acres are estimated as the forest area 

 of Bulgaria. This country is an importer of wood, consuming about 

 6,000,000 cubic feet a year above an annual production in the vicinity 

 of 68,000,000 cubic feet. The ownership of forest land is complicated 

 by political conditions, but the State and municipalities lay claim to 

 a total of more than 80 per cent. Fires, grazing and insects exact a 

 large annual toll from Bulgarian forest resources, a loss accentuated 

 by the lack of organization for either fighting fires or regulating the 

 conversion of the forest resources. The statute books of the country 

 boast several satisfactory forest laws but no power now exists to 



