FORESTRY IN FRANCE. 



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SOUTHWEST FRANCE. 



REPORT OF CONSUL ROOSEVELT, OF BORDEAUX. 



The forests in the departments of Dordogne, Gironde and Landes, which 

 form the XXIXth circumscription of forest reservation, are divided as fol- 

 lows: 



The inhabitants of the communes have the right accorded gratuitously, 

 or at an almost nominal figure, to the accessory products of the commune 

 forests, such as green or dried grasses, dead stumps, pasture, &c. The cut- 

 tings or trimmings are either sold or given away. If sold the proceeds are 

 covered into the municipal treasury to be used in defraying the expenses of 

 the commune. If given away, they are divided among the families of the 

 district. Pasturage is only permitted where the trees are old enough not to 

 suffer from the teeth of the cattle. Young forests are protected by barriers 

 of light portable wooden fences, wide ditches and banks of earth, known in- 

 the vernacular as baradeaux. 



ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT FORESTS BUREAUX. 



Government forests are divided into thirty-five reservations or districts. 

 The XXIXth district, as above mentioned, comprises the departments of the 

 Dordogne, Gironde and Landes, with supervisions at the following cities: 

 Bordeaux and Lesparre in the Gironde; Mont-de-Marsan aiid Dax in the 

 Landes. The supervisions in each department are subdivided into inspec- 

 tions of cantonments, as follows: Inspection of Bordeaux, cantonment of 

 Bordeaux, cantonment of Ares; inspection of Lesparre, cantonment of 

 Lesparre, cantonment of Montchie; inspection of Mont-de-Marsan, canton- 

 ment of Mont-de-Marsan, cantonment of Parentis; inspection of Dax, can- 

 tonment of Dax, cantonment of Saurtons. 



In the department of Dordogne there are no forests entirely controlled by 

 the Government, which has the right only of supervising the clearing of 

 private forest lands. 



The supervisions are managed by inspectors, and the cantonments by 

 deputy inspectors Or forest keepers. 



The inspectors superintend all business affairs, and regulate office and 



outside works. 



