CHAPTER II 

 THE WORLD'S FOREST SUPPLY. QUANTITIES or TIMBER USED. 



TIMBER IMPORTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN 



Forest Area of Europe United States Canada India Australia 

 Japan Africa South America Quantities of Timber used in 

 United States and Other Countries Waning Supply of American 

 Hardwoods Great Waste in Converting Timber Afforestation 

 Physical Advantages of Forests Imports of Timber into Great 

 Britain. 



THE forest area of Europe is about 734,000,000 

 acres. Russia, including Finland, stands well first with 

 nearly 500,000,000 acres, and when we add 326,000,000 

 under Crown management in her Asiatic dominions, 

 this will probably make Russia the largest forest-bear- 

 ing country in the world. Next come Sweden and 

 Austria-Hungary, each with about 42,000,000, Germany 

 34,000,000, Norway 16,000,000 acres. These are 

 the countries from which the chief soft timber supplies 

 come to Great Britain. France and Spain have each 

 forests covering about 20,000,000 acres, although they are 

 not to any extent exporting countries, leaving about 

 60,000,000 acres amongst the other European countries. 

 It may surprise some to know that there are slightly over 

 2,500,000 acres of woodland in Great Britain, but it forms 

 the smallest percentage of any country in Europe and 

 probably in the world, being only about 4 per cent. 

 Denmark comes next, with about 4-J per cent., the per- 

 centage gradually increasing until in the case of Norway 



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