tion of firs and pines, principally from the Pacific Coast States 

 and British Columbia, and which are found to be more hardy 

 than the native trees. 



In the beginning the Association had only one forester, 

 or provincial forest guard, in Hedemarken. Now it has over 

 fifty scattered all over the country. 



The parent association is divided into sub-divisions repre- 

 senting every province, and embracing 15,000 individual 

 members, and is constantly expanding. It distributes large 

 sums for use in planting, sowing, ditching, experimentation, 

 instruction, etc. It obtains its funds by private subscription 

 and government subsidies. Its annual budget amounts to 

 500,000 kroner, one-half of which is provided by the govern- 

 ment. Up to 1920 it had brought under cultivation some 100,- 

 000 acres; had planted 150,000,000 trees, sown 5,000 kilo- 

 grams of seed, and constructed 6,000,000 meters of ditching. 



"It might seem from these figures," Mr. Heiberg says, 

 "that we have reached a state of perfection in respect to our 

 forests. In reality we are merely at the beginning. We have, 

 however, established the fact that it is possible to make new 

 forests, to restore old and decrepit ones, and to develop a 

 forest capable of giving a sustained yield as long as it receives 

 reasonable treatment. We have demonstrated that the 

 enormous stretches of heaths in Norway, which do not now 

 produce anything, can be covered with trees, and we are 

 prepared to expand all this work on a large and more profit- 

 able scale as fast as the means are provided. We are working 

 for a plantation on such a scale as will help the credit of the 

 country and promote extensive colonization. Last year I 

 made an inspection tour of our West Coast districts where 

 much of our work has been carried on. The hill-sides, once bare, 

 are now covered with young trees, firs and pines, all in a 

 healthy state of growth and development. There is great 

 future wealth in store for us if we expand this work as we 

 should." 



There are in Norway, as in Sweden and Finland, both 

 State and private forests. The latter largely predominate. 

 Altogether, the forest lands comprise about 28,000 square 

 miles, or about 23 per cent, of the country's total area which 

 consists of about 124,450 square miles. Compared with Canada's 

 forest area that of Norway appears almost insignificant, yet 



