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ble, the Emperor setting a good example in 1858 by re- 
nouncing his superior right to forest reservations in the 
Alp districts. 
The best exemplification of the spirit of the Austrian 
forest policy and of the methods of forest organiza- 
tion and administration is to be found in the adminis- 
tration of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina de- 
scribed in a volume just published by the veteran Aus- 
trian forester, Ludwig Dimitz.* 
Here the Austrian government has in the short time of 
25 years succeeded in bringing orderly conditions into 
the forest management. Until 1878 these countries 
were provinces of Turkey and were annexed to Austria 
as a result of the Russo-Turkish War. The Turks had 
already attempted a management of the forest lands, 
which were in their entirety claimed by the Sultan. 
Property conditions being entirely unclear when the 
Austrians assumed the administration, these questions 
had first to be settled by a survey. This survey resulted 
in showing a forest area of 6.3 million acres, 51% of 
the land area, of which probably all but about 1.5 mil- 
lion acres is private or communal property; half of the 
state property is fully stocked and it is estimated that 
about 100 million cubic feet is the annual increment. 
5. Progress of Forest Organization. 
Since 1873 working plans according to unified princi- 
ples have been prepared for most of the State property so 
that by 1898 about 82% was under regulated manage- 
ment. 
* Die forstlichen Verhiltnisse und Einrichtungen Bosniens und der 
Herzegovina, Lupwic Dimirz, Vienna, 1905, pp. 389. See Forestry Quarterly, 
Vol, III, p. 148. 
