^Canadian Pulp & Paper 

 Association 



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Bulletin Number Thirty-four 



Issued October 15th, 1921 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS IN SWEDEN, 

 FINLAND, NORWAY, GREAT 



BRITAIN AND FRANCE b ^ , 



THE articles herein reprinted were written by Edward Beck, 

 who, as a representative of the Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association, spent the summer of 1921 in Sweden, Norway, 

 Finland, Great Britain and France, investigating forest condi- 

 tions. His particular quest had relation more to the administra- 

 tion of the forests the part played by the State and by the 

 private owners in the maintenance and renewal of the forest 

 resources than to the more abstruse subject of practical 

 sylvaculture. 



As will be noted, in all the countries visited the State is 

 found to take the larger share of the responsibility for the 

 future of the forests, both in the regulation of cutting and in 

 providing the means for sowing and replanting cut-over lands 

 as well as for regenerating in reclaimed lands and other waste 

 places. This applies to an almost equal extent whether the 

 forests are owned outright by the State or are in the hands 

 of communities or in those of corporations or individuals. 

 The State, in return for the revenues derived therefrom, and 

 in acknowledgment of the economic factors involved, under- 

 takes the responsibility of ensuring perpetuation of the forests. 

 Particularly is this the case in Sweden, where the Forest 

 Service puts back into the forests at least 50 per cent, of the 

 revenue derived therefrom. In Norway and Finland, the 

 governments expend on these projects large sums of money. 

 In France reforestation is being carried on at considerable public 

 expense in order to overcome the ravages of war. In Great 

 Britain, for the first time in centuries, the State has set 

 seriously to work to cultivate new forests and parliament has 

 voted three and a half millions sterling to assist in carrying 

 on the work. It is significant that the Forest Commission 



