this law has had very beneficial results and is 
good as far as it goes, but they are not satis- 
fied with it and at an early session of parlia- 
ment, probably however not until 1923, a bill 
will be introduced that may, if it becomes law, 
considerably alter the character of the regula- 
tions and perhaps even introduce some silvi- . 
cultural requirements. But that is a matter for 
the future and can only come about after there 
has been full discussion of the whole question. 
Another forest law of some interest is that 
whereby ownership of forest land in any large 
amount is restricted to residents of the dis- 
trict. The purpose of this law was to prevent 
speculative holding of forest areas, particularly 
by aliens; although it also applies to Nor- 
wegians who are non-residents of the district 
in question. 
THE NORWEGIAN 
FOREST SERVICE 
The Norwegian Forest Service (Skogvaese- 
net) is a branch of the Department of Agricul- 
skole) at Aas, near Kristiania. There are also 
several ranger schools. 
One piece of work, now going on in Norway, 
is of especial interest to Americans—a compre- 
hensive survey of the forest resources of the 
country. So far only one fylke, or district, has 
been covered, that of Gstfold in the south- 
eastern corner of the country, but it is proposed 
to extend the survey to include all of the com- 
mercially valuable forest areas. The method 
followed is to gridiron the district with strip 
survey lines, spaced fairly close together, so’ 
that an accurate estimate will result, both of 
merchantable timber and of the young growth. 
With this are of course collected various other 
facts and figures of general interest. The 
making available of exact data of this sort gives 
a basis on which proper methods of forest 
management can rest. There would be less 
discussion and more accomplishment in forest- 
ry in the United States if we had a survey of 
this type actually under way and yielding re- 
sults. 
FOREST 
ALONG THE 
RAILROAD 
FROM 
KRISTIANIA TO 
BERGEN 
ture (Landbruksdepartementet). The head- 
quarters are at Kristiania; the chief of the 
service being Skogdirektor Henrik Jelstrup, a 
gentleman to whom the writer is indebted for 
many courtesies in connection with his visit 
to the forests of Norway. In the field there are 
three inspection districts, which subdivide into 
38 forest districts (in 1919) each with a super- 
visor (Skogforvalter). In 20 of the districts 
there are assistants as well. The rangers, 
really guards, are usually men on part time, 
who combine their forestry work with other 
vocations, although this is not true of all of 
the ranger staff. Connected with the Kristiania 
office are a number of technical men, some of 
whom have the special duty of preparing work- 
ing plans for the state forests. All the super- 
visors and assistants must be graduates of the 
State Forest School, a department of the Nor- 
wegian Agricultural College (Landbrukshdi- 
NORWAY’S FOREST 
EXPERIMENT STATION 
Connected with the Forest Service, but di- 
rectly under a committee that directs the gen- 
eral policy, is the Forest Experiment Station 
(Skogforsoéksvaesenet). This station was es- 
tablished in 1917 and is located at Aas, adjoin- 
ing the college. The first director was Erling 
Ramsay Archer, a Norwegian of Scottish de- 
scent, who however has recently transferred 
to the administrative branch of the service. 
An extensive program of forest research has 
been outlined, but necessarily at the beginning 
much attention has had to be paid to the de- 
tails of organization, so that the work of the 
station can as yet hardly be said fully to be 
under way. Important contributions are how: 
ever to be looked for from this station in later 
years. 
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