200 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



Rumania 



Twenty-one million acres of forest now are the property of 

 Rumania, which before the war had about six million acres. As a 

 result of the changes in territory the balance of State ownership of 

 forest lands has been upset somewhat but today the ownership is 

 about evenly divided between private interests and the State, com- 

 munes and quasi-public owners. The new acquisitions enhance 

 Rumania's position as a wood exporter, about 90,000,000 cubic feet 

 being available for export. All forest areas except those owned by 

 private interests are administered by a forest council and along lines 

 of technical forestry methods, but the real authority of this system is 

 small at present and the number of denuded acres is growing rapidly. 



Russia 



European and Asiatic Russia, Turkestan and the Caucasus to- 

 gether have a total of approximately one and one-half billion acres, 

 with one billion in Asiatic Russia. This is necessarily an estimate 

 and includes many thousands of acres within the forest areas that 

 do not support a stand of commercial timber. 



Forest land in Russia in Europe is now nationalized under the 

 existing government, but even before the war the State owned nearly 

 70 per cent, of the forest area. Seven billion cubic feet is set as the 

 annual cut from the European Russian forests, which is a little more 

 than one half the natural reproduction of the forest resources. Forty 

 per cent, of the cut is available for export, an amount more than 

 enough to supply the European deficit. The pre-war statutes classi- 

 fied commercial and protective forests under private ownership and 

 regulated the cutting of the latter, and prohibited wasteful cutting 

 and denuding. A number of forestry schools were maintained and this 

 number has been increased under the present regime. 



In the Caucasus before the war the State owned about half the 

 forest area, but the lumber industry is not highly developed and the 

 supply of timber far exceeds the demand. 



The forest resources of Asiatic Russia are tremendous and mostly 

 unexplored. Ninety-five per cent, is government owned or in joint 

 ownership with tribes of Siberia. The cut of timber is far below the 

 rate of growth, and the amount of timber available for export can 



