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Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipij. 



THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA. 



Russia now occupies first place 

 among the nations of the world in 

 the extent of its timber resources, 

 the value and quality of two-thirds 

 of which are practically unknown. 

 The total area of the empire is about 

 one-seventh of the land surface of 

 the globe, and 39 per cent, of it is 

 under forests. Those in European 

 Russia cover an area of 474.000.000 

 acres; in Finland, 50,500,000 acres; 

 in Poland, 6,700,000 acres; and in 

 the Caucasus, 18,600,000 acres; a 

 total of 549,800,000 acres, exclusive 

 of Siberia. In the Ural Provinces, 

 forests cover 70 per cent, of the area, 

 and in the four lake Provinces 57 

 per cent. It is estimated that in 

 western Siberia alone there are 465,- 

 000,000 acres of virgin forests, and 

 eastern Siberia, while not so richly 

 endowed, has sufficient timber to 

 supply the world's demand for years 

 to come. 



The Government owns 285,598,941 

 acres of forest land in European 

 Russia, 12,826,387 acres in the Cau- 

 casus, 360.519.435 acres in Asiatic 

 Russia, and 288,742,000 acres in the 

 Amur region, a total of 947,686,763 

 acres. Twenty-three per cent, of the 

 forest land belonged to landed pro- 

 prietors and 9 per cent, to the pea- 

 santry in 1910. 



The principal timber lands of 

 eastern Siberia are in the valleys of 

 the Amur River svstem, which 

 cover an area of about 200,000,000 

 square miles. Of this area, only 

 about 400,000 miles is considered 

 available for timbering, but accord- 

 ing to local calculations, allowing 

 45 merchandable trees to the acre, 

 this would give some 11,520,000,000 

 trees. As the time required for 

 these trees to mature is placed at 100 

 years. 115.200,000 trees could be cut 

 per annum without diminishing the 

 forests, with proper reforestation 

 methods. 



The Russian Forestry Depart- 

 ment places the total timber land in 

 Siberia at 810,000,000 acres, of 



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Forest Assistant O. J. Sangar, of 

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