190 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



Germany 



Thirty-five million acres constituted the approximate forest area 

 of Germany before the war, but by the Treaty of Versailles, four 

 million acres were taken away. About one-half of the area belongs to 

 the State, the crown forests and the communes. Private owners own 

 about 47 per cent, and there is four per cent, of the total area in the 

 hands of institutions of various kinds. 



Germany, like France, follows out a program of not eating into 

 the forest capital, balancing the yearly increment with the yearly cut. 

 With the losses from the war, Germany's annual cut was decreased to 

 a figure of in the vicinity of one and one-half billion cubic feet. To 

 satisfy her demands it is necessary to import about another 

 half billion. 



The German forest laws require a permit before the lands can be 

 cleared; reforestation is carried on in all cut-over land; the State 

 forester has the power to take over the management of a forest area 

 if in his opinion the owner is mismanaging it. There are seven higher 

 schools for the training of foresters. At present the situation in 

 Germany is affected by the dislocation of currency and general con- 

 ditions in Europe, but it is indicated that her forests will continue 

 to serve the State as they have in the past. 



Great Britain 



Three million acres are all that remain of the original dense woods 

 that once grew in the United Kingdom. Ninety-six per cent, of this 

 area is owned by private individuals and the remainder are crown 

 lands or in the hands of some governmental department. From this 

 area the total annual cut is not greatly in excess of 40,000,000 cubic 

 feet, while the annual increment is slightly under this figure. The 

 consumption, of course, is several times the production, being esti- 

 mated at about 600,000,000 cubic feet a year, the United States and 

 Canada, Norway and Sweden, Finland and Russia largely supplying 

 the deficit. 



To the significance of this condition of dependence for forest 

 supplies, there is an aroused sentiment in the United Kingdom. 

 Forest planting was undertaken as far back as 1885. The war accentu- 

 ated the dependence and in 1919 a Forestry Commission was 

 appointed to carry out a program of reforesting 1,770,000 acres of 



