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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The estimated requirements provided for in the plan, beginning 

 with 1930-31, are as follows: 



Revised estimates provide for an even larger cut. There may be 

 some question as to whether timber production can be expanded 

 exactly according to schedule, but there can be little doubt that 

 Russia will consume larger and larger quantities of wood during the 

 next few decades, if industrialization proceeds along the lines that 

 are contemplated. This will parallel the history of timber con- 

 sumption during the industrial development of other countries. 



If the estimates for the next 5 years should be realized, the con- 

 sumption of wood in Russia by 1938 would be more than five times 

 that in 1924. The total cut planned for 1933-34 is close to the pre- 

 depression total cut in the United States, and considerably larger 

 than the aggregate consumption of all European countries outside 

 of Russia. Even with this increase in output, Russia, according to 

 some economists, would still fall short of meeting her domestic needs 

 for saw timber in 1935 by 500 million cubic feet, and in 1940 by nearly 

 a billion cubic feet. 



CENTRAL, NORTHERN, AND WESTERN EUROPE AS A WHOLE 



A recent study of wood consumption in Europe, 5 excepting the 

 Mediterranean and Danubian States, gives the following comparative 

 figures for 1913 and 1928-29 (table 4). 



TABLE 4. Per capita annual timber consumption in European countries, 1913 and 

 192829 (in equivalents of standing timber) 



1 Saw timber includes all classes of wood except firewood. 



2 Large apparent increase in saw-timber consumption in Finland explained by better statistics in 1928-29. 

 Part of increase in Latvia also results from better statistics. 



3 Abnormally low consumption in 1928-29, due to disturbed conditions. 



* Information supplied by Arthur C. Ringland, based on studies by Dr. Egon Glesinger. 



