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other hardwoods, largely as standards over hazel coppice (228). Itis 
now dificult to distinguish woods which have been planted at some 
time or other from untreated areas. It is probable that very httle 
woodland is left m which planting has not had its part. 
The erea and distribution of woodlands by categories in England, 
Wales, and Scotland are shown im table 122. From this table 1t will 
be seen that nearly half (47.9 percent) of the woodland is composed of 
hich forest and 17.9 percent of coppice or coppice with standards. 
““Felled or devastated”’ amounts to about half a million acres (16.1 
percent), most of which was cut during, or immediately after, the 
World War. Altogether, the area of unproductive woodland, which 
includes “felled or devastated”, “scrub”, and “uneconomic”, 
amounts to over a million acres (34.2 percent). 
Taste 122.—Distribution of woodlands tn Great Britain, by catagories, 19241 
Category Wales 
Hesnomic or potentially prodmetive foresiz Amren 
reenter, oe ee ee 46, G40 
Eacmuyneanien: ee ae = 43, SET 
Mixed conifers amd herdwoods——________ 22, OK 
Beotah Teen forest FS Se ee Ts, O77 1s, cos 
Coppice znd coppice-with-stendards ____ 4G TID | 35, 331 
CRU Se eee en Soe Ze 87, 410) 34,84 
Felled or devastated ——______________-____ 1g4, 742 | 62, 182 
Uneconcmic (Gncluding ornamentz) woods and | 
seeites ellis) =: 6 ee ee 108, 529 & O11 
gL 5 ed sep aE TS we UO i | 253,461 | 1,074,226 | 2958, 672 | 
Total land areg________________________|| 32, 037, MS || 5 008, 762 || 19 069, 728 | 56, 206, 733 | ~_____ 
: é Percent | Percent | Percent | Percent | 
Batio of woodland to total lemd erea___________| 1 Oo i. Se ji eae 
i Source of data: From (232, taile IT and eppendic 3 (a)) 
The woodlands are fairly evenly distributed, the more heavily 
forested regions bemg the southeast of England (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, 
Hants) with 12.2 percent of woodland and the northeast of Scotland 
(Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Elgm, Nairn) with 11.8 percent of 
woodland. 
Of the total area of woodlands shown in table 122, approximately 
2,796,000 acres® were in private ownership in 1924. The present 
area of woodlands (1933) has been increased by planting, but, as the 
new plantings are chiefly in public ownership, the area in private hands 
is substantially the same. The current annual production of British 
woodlands was estimated m 1924 at about 56,000,000 cubie feet, 
valued at a little over £2,000,000 ($9,700,000) (222, table IIT (a)). 
It 1s evident that forests are not normally of great economic impor- 
tance in Great Britam and are not a large element in the taxable wealth. 
The public interest m maintaming these forests and increasing their 
area arises partly from their importance in time of war when normal 
sources of supply may be very expensive or entirely cut off. 
® Computed from total ares of woodland as given for 1924 im the Forestry Commission Report om Census 
codlands 
of Woodlands (published im 1928) (232, table IE (a)), with deductions for area of publicly owned w 
asestimated by Hiley from data im officiel reports and other sources, 
