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of over 7 million dollars worth of wood material is 

 required. 



In addition, there are about 75,000 acres of heaths 

 and other wastes in process of reforestation. Especi- 

 ally on the island of Sjalland, on which the capital 

 Copenhagen, is situated, the forest area is now in- 

 creasing by planting. The balance, or nearly 20 per 

 cent, of the land area, consists of heaths, moors, peat- 

 bogs and sands. 



Half the forest area is located on the islands, and 

 as these represent about one-third of the total area, 

 they are twice as densely forested as the peninsula 

 of Jutland. This latter along the north and west 

 coast for 200 miles represents a large sandbank with 

 extensive sand dunes, shifting sands, heaths and 

 moors, a desolate almost uninhabited country of 

 sterile downs, called Klitten, the recovery of which 

 has been in progress for a hundred years. According 

 to some, this once bore a coniferous forest, more likely 

 it was never forested. 



While originally beech was and is still the predomi- 

 nant timber ((60%) with considerable additions of 

 oak (7%) and other hardwoods, a conifer forest of 

 spruce and pine, covering more than 20% of the 

 forest area, has been established by planting. This 

 planting has been mainly done on the dunes and sand- 

 wastes, and in the reclamation of the extensive heaths 

 and moors or peat bogs, especially in the northern 

 Limf jord district, which occupy one-sixth of the unpro- 

 ductive area. 



As was natural, the forest stocking on good farm 



