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24 per cent. About 47 per cent, is held by private owners and the 

 rest is in the hands of political units or under semi-public ownership. 

 Denmark is an importer of wood, and although the annual cut of her 

 forests is not officially stated, it is estimated that about one-half of the 

 annual consumption of 70,000,000 cubic feet is domestically supplied. 

 There are fire protection laws and a law of 1805 vests the State 

 Forester with the power to mark trees for cutting on land acquired 

 by private owners and to prohibit cutting within ten years after 

 acquisition. One course in forestry is supplied, a research station is 

 maintained at Copenhagen and there is some active popular education 

 in behalf of forestry. 



Ecuador 



Estimates place the forest area of Ecuador at slightly in excess of 

 55,000,000 acres, in large measure owned by the State, although the 

 exact distribution of ownership is uncertain. The country is not a 

 large importer or exporter. The government has not entered upon 

 forestry activity in any way. 



Esthonia 



This newly created Baltic State includes within its area about two 

 million acres of forest land with only about 5000 owned by the State 

 and the remainder in the hands of private owners. Its newness 

 accounts for the lack of statistics on its output and the extent of com- 

 mercial activity in lumber, but indications are that it will be an 

 importing country, depending upon Russia for the bulk of its supply. 

 Its chief port of Riga will see, undoubtedly, a large trade in lumber 

 out of Russia. 



Finland 



This country is one of the most heavily forested for its area, with 

 an estimated acreage of 53,500,000 under forest growth. Some 

 15,000,000 acres of this, however, are so inaccessible as to be imprac- 

 ticable of exploitation at present. The- State owns about 24,000,000 

 acres of the entire forest area, although some of the forest area 

 classed as privately owned is really the property of the government 

 and loaned to private operators. It is estimated that the timber stand 

 amounts to about 13,000,000,000 cubic feet and the annual cut is set 

 at one tenth of this figure. Finland is a large exporter, sending out 

 about 300,000,000 cubic feet of wood a year, and using much wood in 



