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(a) There are no State forests in the departments of C6tes-du-Nord, 

 Dordogne, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Rh6ne, Vienne (Haute). (6) The six 

 departments with the most State forest area, in the order of importance, 

 are: Ari^ge, Alpes (Basses) Vosges, C6te d'Or, Loiret, Drome, (c) The 

 six heaviest producing (State forest) departments, in the order of their 

 importance, are: Vosges, Seine-Inferieure, C6te d'Or, Aisne,^ Jm-a, 

 Meurthe-et-Moselle.2 (rf) The unproductive land in the State forests is 

 chiefly in the mountains, notably in the departments of Aridge, Alpes 

 (Hautes), Pyren^es-Orientales, Dr6me, Isere, Alpes (Basses). 



Communal and Institution Forests. — There are no communal and in- 

 stitution forests under State control in the following departments: (a) 

 Calvados, C6tes-du-Nord, FinistSre, Indre-et-Loire (Inf^rieure), Lot, 

 Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Morbihan, Orne, Vendue. The largest areas 

 are in the (6) Vosges, Sa6ne (Haute), Cote d'Or, Doubs, Meuse, Marne 

 (Haute), but as regards production (c) Sa6ne (Haute) is first with Doubs, 

 Vosges, Jura, Meuse, Cote d'Or, in the order named, (d) The unproduc- 

 tive land is also in the mountains, notably in the following departments : 

 Alpes (Hautes),Var, Ardeche, Is&re, Pyren^es-Orientales, Alpes (Basses). 



Private Forests. — The statistical data on private forests and on com- 

 munal and institution forests not under management is less trustworthy, 

 (a) But it is certain that there is privately owned forest land in every de- 

 partment of France, with a minimum ownership of but 121 acres in the 

 Seine which includes Paris (this corresponds to the District of Columbia 

 in the United States). (6) The largest areas of privately owned forests 

 are in the Landes, Gironde, Dordogne, Var, Nievre, Marne. The Var 

 moimtain forests produce but httle saw timber though the acreage is 

 large, (c) The heaviest production of private forest land is found in the 

 Landes and Gironde, together 3,008,483 cubic meters (corresponding to 

 446,253,000 feet board measure and 340,963 cords of fuel), Nievre, Dor- 

 dogne, Marne, C6te d'Or, together 1,871,144 cubic meters (or about 

 88,928,000 feet board measure and 481,563 cords). Certain features of 

 production are illustrated by these figures and by the original statistics. 

 In the Landes the fuel produced was about one-third the volume of the 

 timber, while in the Gironde (also a maritime pine producing department) 

 the ratio of fuel to timber was as 8 is to 6. Moreover, in the Nievre, 

 Dordogne, Marne, and C6te d'Or, where private forests are largely cop- 

 pice and coppice-under-standards, the total timber production was but 

 one-fifth that of the Landes and Gironde, but the fuel produced exceeded 

 the latter two departments by more than 140,000 cords, (d) There is 

 less unproductive forest privately owned than pubhcly owned, although 

 the total area of private forest is about double that in the hands of the 

 State, communes, and institutions. 



2 Heavily devastated by the war operations of the Germans and the French. 



