198 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



Paraguay 



Paraguayan forests cover 27,500,000 acres, most of which have 

 been transferred to private owners by the government. There is a 

 large export of special woods and little import. The only activity of 

 the government remotely resembling a forest policy has been to cease 

 giving away her lands. Otherwise there is no regulation. 



Persia 



Only the Caspian Province of Persia boasts a forest growth and 

 this amounts to barely 30,000,000 acres, all being owned by the govern- 

 ment. There is, however, an export greater than import, due largely 

 to the lack of demand occasioned by lack of transportation. 



Peru 



Some 200,000,000 acres are forested in Peru, largely owned by 

 the State, but there is a large import and a comparatively small 

 domestic cut, due largely to the inaccessibility of the forest area. 

 While there is no forest organization, the government has prohibited 

 cutting of trees in certain places where they serve an aesthetic or 

 protective purpose. 



Philippine Islands 



Scattered among the more than 2000 Philippine Islands there is 

 an aggregate of approximately 38,000,000 acres of forest land owned 

 almost entirely by the State. About 11,000,000 cubic feet are cut 

 from these resources annually for timber, and exports and imports of 

 forest products for all purposes about balance. Indications are that 

 the exportation and exploitation will increase. 



Poland 



Since the present Poland is made up of new territories formerly 

 the property of Russia, Austria or Germany, the exact status of forest 

 resources is largely a matter of estimate, the forest area being vari- 

 ously set at between twenty and twenty-five million acres. About 30 

 per cent, is in the hands of the State and the rest owned and operated 

 by private enterprise, the total being productive of an annual cut 

 estimated at approximately 700,000,000 cubic feet. Poland is an 

 exporter of timber, but institution of a conservative system of 



