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done besides preserving the forests and selling the
heavy timber for the benefit of the Treasury.
Formerly this Crown property had been used by
everybody pretty much as they pleased.
In 1863 a School of Forestry was established at
Evois, but instruction here was occasionally checked
by an insufficiency of pupils. Lately the school has
been extended and a course of instruction in forestry
has been suggested at the University of Helsingfors, it
being generally admitted that advanced studies are
more profitably carried on at a university than in
isolated schools. A much-needed course of instruction
for the forest guards has also been instituted;
and it is proposed to establish a station for
experimental forestry, as has been done for agriculture.
Every year small grants of money are distributed
through the agricultural societies for the promotion of
forest cultivation, which can hardly yet be said to exist.
The State foresters are allowed to assist private persons
in drawing up schemes of growth and other work.
The principal question for the future will certainly
be to what extent land fit for agriculture and for
settlement is to be separated, as decided by recent
laws, and furthermore, how much forest land shall be
granted to each settler. The importance of such laws
depends to a great extent on how they are applied.
If the Crown forest land is to be treated as a
commercial undertaking, commercial value must be the
principal consideration. That ought to be the object
of the million of acres which have been put aside as
“Kronoparks,“ that is to say, for regular forest-growing.
We need not speak of the Crown parks maintained for
the public benefit on account of their beauty, such as
those near the great waterfall of Imatra and near one
of the lakes at Punkaharju.
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