COSTS OF ADMINISTRATION 



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There are no rich notable State forests in this department. The State 

 forest of d'Auberive is managed on a 150-year rotation; Bussieres 144; de 

 la Haie-Renault 144; all of these are being converted from coppice and 

 coppice-under-standards to high forest. 



YONNE (BROADLEAVES) 



Here four-fifths the forest area is under rotations of less than 25 years. 



LANDES (MARITIME PINE) 



Costs of Administration. As Huffel points out, it is difficult to say 

 authoritatively just what it costs to manage the State forests because the 

 budget provides also for the management of communal forests and public 

 establishments, for game and fish protection, for control of deforestation, 

 for the reforestation of eroded mountain lands, for dune protection and for 



