only supply of stumpage in the country. 



Those outcrop lands will be a disgrace to the 

 counties where they are located just as long as they 

 are left unproductive waste land, but given a chance 

 they will produce forests of which the people will be 

 proud. 



What will you do with them? 



Forestry in Finland 



Most of us think of Finland as a poor and back- 

 ward country with an icy climate. How many of us 

 realize that, backward though Finland may be in 

 many directions, yet they have developed a more ef- 

 fective policy looking toward the preservation and 

 utilization of a large portion of their forests than the 

 progressive State of Minnesota. And, after all, are 

 the Finns as backward as many of us think? Our 

 former University President, Mr. Vincent, has stated 

 that, to him Finland's capitol, Helsingfors, is one 

 of the most pleasing cities in Europe. In the matter 

 of education, Finland's accomplishments put her 

 abreast of the more progressive peoples of Europe. 

 But we are straying from the field of forestry to 

 which we will now return. 



Finland covers an area of approximately 150,000 

 square miles, making it a little less than twice as 

 big as Minnesota. It is a country of lakes and 

 swamps with tracts of higher land, occupied by farms 

 or covered by forests in between. The climate is 

 severe. Yet the snowfall is not sufficient to interfere 

 with winter logging. The upland soil is poor and 



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