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The management of communal forest is to be placed 

 under the State forest administration, the corporations 

 paying 1.6c. per acre; but this feature does not seem 

 entirely settled. 



Protective forests under special regulations are 

 established at the alpine frontier and on the drift- 

 sand plains, which are planted up, 



3. Forest Administration and Forestry Practice. 



The central forestry bureau as it exists now was 

 organized in 1883 as the Domain Bureau in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture with, at present, a forester 

 as General Director, and under it a forestry corps 

 (skogstaten) (reorganized in 1890) which has charge of 

 the public forests, and also of the forest control in the 

 private forests where such control exists outside of 

 the Conservation Boards. For the purpose of this 

 administration the country is divided into 10 districts, 

 each under an inspector (or ofverjdgmdstare) ; the dis- 

 tricts are divided into ranges (revir), now 90, each 

 under a chief of range (or jagmastare) with assistants 

 and guards (kronojdgare) ; the nomenclature of the 

 officers suggesting the hunt rather than the forest 

 management. In addition, 6 forest engineers are 

 employed on working plans, engineering works, and 

 in giving advice and assistance to private owners 

 who pay for such service. 



When it is stated that the ranges in the northern 

 provinces average over 300,000 acres of public and 

 400,000 acres of private forest; in central Sweden 

 150,000 acres of public and 145,000 acres of private 

 forest, and in the southern provinces nearly 55,000 



