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information about the extension, nature, production, etc. of the
forests, both in the various districts of the country, and in the
tributary districts of the various rivers. These matters, which, on
account of the lack of uniformity in the nature of the country,
present peculiar difficulties in their study, cannot here be treated
in detail; moreover, the forest statistics, on several points, are
still rather a neglected subject in this country, inasmuch as it is
necessary to a large extent to build upon approximate estimates,
no detailed information being available.
Both the annual production and the new growth vary greatly.
The production is estimated at 344,000,000 cub. feet for the whole
country, or 203 cub. feet per acre forest. Of this quantity, about
one fifth is exported, the rest consumed in the country. With a
population of about 2,000,000 there is an annual average
consumption for each individual in the country of 137 cub. feet,
and a forest area of 8.42 acres. In the fifteen southern counties
(see the chart, nos. 1—15), the new growth varies from 22.8 cub.
feet per acre in the south-east of Norway, to 18.2 cub. feet
in the West Country and in southern Trondhjem county, and
11.4 cub. feet in northern Trondhjem, and for the whole fifteen
counties it amounts on an average to 20,7 cub. feet per acre
of forest. But, at the same time, the cutting down of the
forests, in these same counties, is estimated at 21.7 cub. feet to
each acre of forest. In the three northernmost counties also
(chart, nos. 16—18), the cutting down goes on somewhat faster
than the growth. The result is that on an average for the
whole country the forests are made to yield more than their annual
new growth.
Nor has the ratio in which our most important forest trees
occur been very thoroughly examined into. It is presumed that
about three fourths of the forest area of the country is covered
with conifers, and one fourth with foliage trees. The pine, the
original coniferous tree of the country, may still be considered as
very prominent in the great forests in the southern parts of the
country, and on the slopes of the Dovrefjeld. But from this point
(about 62° N. L.) to the polar circle and in the south-eastern part
of the country the bulk of the forests consists of spruce which has
immigrated later across the low mountains forming the frontier
towards the east, and now forms extensive forests out to the very
coast line. The limit of the pine, as a rule, is about 330 feet
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