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Canadian Forestry Journal. July, icjjo. 



FOREST DESTRUCTION IN FRANCE 



The present wholesale destruction 

 of timber, which it is necessary to re- 

 pair quickly, is not the first France 

 has suffered, and its exceptional grav- 

 ity arises from the fact that the pre- 

 ceeding one is not yet wholly made 

 up. The great destruction of forests 

 in France during the Napoleonic wars 

 was estimated at 12j/2 million acres, 

 .and it still weighs heavily on the 

 ■ country. The deplorable results of 

 Ihis destruction and of the upsetting 



of s}'stematic forestry are well known. 

 Much was done to repair the disaster, 

 but the forestry effort of the nineteenth 

 century was insufficient. Although 

 the Dunes and the Landes of Gascony 

 were planted and some afforestation 

 was done in the mountain regions, M. 

 Daubree could only announce an in- 

 crease of i^ million acres in the area 

 of forest, or about one-tenth of what 

 was rec|uired. 



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