FRENCH FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



CHAPTER I 

 CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY 



Value of Extensive Forestry (p. i). 

 Tunisia (p. 2). 

 Algeria (p. 4). _ 

 Corsica (p. 8). 



VALUE OF EXTENSIVE FORESTRY 



FOREST students can secure more information of direct appli- 

 cation to American conditions in countries where forestry is not 

 intensively organized. There is more of value to the adminis- 

 trator in North Africa and Corsica than in France proper; and 

 more of value in France than in Germany. The reason must be 

 clear. The theory of forestry is now established solidly enough 

 to enable the elucidation of its general principles which hold 

 under ordinary conditions. In a trip through France one sees 

 forest administration under the average conditions. What is 

 difficult to understand are the exceptions to these general rules, 

 whether made necessary by market, climate, species, or cost of 

 administration. Such modifications from general forest usage 

 are admirably illustrated in extensive French forestry. In France 

 proper intensive methods have been systematized for more than 

 a century, and radical changes are seldom necessary. In North ' 

 Africa poor transportation and low prices force the omission of 

 many silvical measures that may be possible in France, and 

 necessitate many radical variations of absorbing interest. 



The extensiveness of administration is in the order of conquest. 

 Tunisia, a French protectorate only since 1881 (recognized by 

 the English in 1883), is less extensively administered than 



