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Other Species. — Rowan oak is also found in Corsica, as 

 well as birch, linden, ash, aspen, common alder, green alder, 

 sycamore, maple, etc., all of secondary importance. 



Undergrowth. — The more important undergrowth is: straw- 

 berry tree, tree heather, mastic tree, buckthorn, viburnum, 

 bay, juniper bush, box tree, broom or jennet, cistus, etc. Of 

 these the heather is the most considered, from the forester's 

 viewpoint, because of the fire menace it creates when growing 

 under Corsican pine on southern exposures. 



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Organization. — The entire island of Corsica comprises the 

 30th conservation with an official forest area of 132,006 hectares 

 (326,185 acres). It is administered by a conservator^^ stationed 

 at Ajaccio. 



There are now five inspections with the following areas: ^^ 



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Present Force. — Of these, strictly speaking, Ajaccio and 

 Chiavari are "chefferies," designed for an isolated area of 

 forests where the inspector himself has a mere ranger district 

 to administer. With the other regular inspections the inspector 

 has no district, but merely supervises all districts. The present 

 aggregate force-" includes: i conservator, i assistant inspector 



'* The conservator in 191 2 was M. deLapasse, an efficient officer and a charm- 

 ing man, nominated as conservator at Bordeaux in 19 13. 



18 Unpublished official records furnished me by de Lapasse, 



-" The essential statistics of the forests under the forest regime are given in 

 the Appendix, p. 209. 



