198 TIMBERS AND THEIR USES 



Russia is one of the largest timber exporters 

 in tlie world. European Russia possesses 

 422,307,000 acres of forest land or nearly one- 

 third of the whole country. Poland has 6,706,000 

 acres, Finland 50,498,000 acres, and Caucasia 

 18,666,000 acres. There is, in addition, an 

 enormous tract of forest land in Asiatic Russia 

 to be brought under control. 



Sixty years ago suggestions were made and 

 plans formulated for the better administration 

 of the Russian forests, but not tiU twenty years 

 later was the existing organization established. 



There is a Forestry Institution in Petrograd 

 and another at New Alexandria in the Vistula 

 provinces, and there are chairs of forestry at a 

 number of schools and colleges. Forestry is also 

 taught in many of the lower schools. 



The United States of America. About one- 

 quarter of the whole country, or rather less than 

 500,000,000 acres, is forest land in the United 

 States. Distribution is uneven, seven-tenths of 

 the forests are on the Atlantic side, one-tenth on 

 the Pacific side, a tenth on the Rocky Mountains 

 themselves, and the remainder scattered over the 

 States between the Rockies and the Mississippi. 

 The diversity of growth is also very marked and 

 is dependent on climate and altitude. On the 

 Pacific coast there are very few hard woods, 



