256 Sweden. 



sists of three persons who are appointed for three years, 

 one by the government, one by the County Council, one 

 by the managing committee of the County Agricultural 

 Society. In addition, where the communities desire, 

 elected Forest Conservation Commissioners may be insti- 

 tuted to make sure of the enforcement of the law. The 

 law does not prescribe detail methods as to how re-growth 

 is to be obtained, but leaves these to be determined by 

 the Board in consultation with the owners. If no 

 agreement can be arrived at, or if the measures stipu- 

 lated are not taken by the owner, the Board may enforce 

 its rulings by Court proceedings, in which injunctions 

 to prevent further lumbering, confiscation of logs, or of 

 lumber, or money fines may be adjudged. The time of 

 contracts for logging rights is reduced from 30 to 5 

 years. An export duty (4 to 8 cents per 100 cubic feet 

 of timber, 8 to 14 cents per ton of dry wood pulp) is 

 levied for the purpose of carrying out the law. Pro- 

 tective forests under special regulations are established 

 at the alpine frontier and on the drift-sand plains. 



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. 



The State's property, as we have seen, occupies largely 

 the commercially less desirable areas in Norrland and 

 much of the waste land. Within the last 30 yeajs a 

 policy of purchasing and reforesting shifting sands and 

 other waste property has increased its holdings. The 

 purchases have added 600,000 acres at an average cost 

 of $5.30 per acre. In this way and by settlement of 

 disputed titles, the State property has grown from 1880 



