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VII. F0RE8TRY OF SWEDEN.
With a view of bringing together under one central office the
direction of the administration, not only of the forests but also of the State’s
landed properties, the Forest Board was in 1883 re-organized into the
Crown Lands’ Office now existing, the chief of which thus is chief of
the Forest service. The mission of this service is in the first place the
care and management of the public forests. The care and improvement
of game has become of smaller importance, but still it is included among
the duties of the Forest service.
After the last regulations, which came in force with the beginning of 1901
and 1903, the Forest service consists of 9 chief masters of forest and 89 regular
masters of foi’est. According to the same regulation, the number of regular
rangers was raised to 348. — The service territories of the forest service »re
termed districts for chief masters of forest, rrevirst for masters of forest, and
sections of guarding for rangers.
In the districts assistants are employed for assistance principally in the
office of chief masters of forest, and extra masters of forest for temporary forest
work. On larger revirs assistant masters of forest are appointed, who
administer a certain part of the revir on their own responsibility. To the assistance
of masters of forest sub-clerks are appointed on the revirs. The total number
of auxiliary officials in the forest service amounts to about 150, of which nearly
half at the same time had private employment.
In addition to the above mentioned officials, there are 6 forest-engineen
employed in the Forest service. They are tasked with the execution of forest
transactions for private owners, after request at the Crown Lands’ Office. The
forest-engineers are paid by the Government but also receive pay from the private
forest-owners who have demanded their services. The work of the forest-engineers
consists of forest partition, revisions of earlier economic projects, afforestation,
drainage of boggy woodland, arrangements for thinning and other things for the
care and improvement of the forest, information in forest economy at agricultural
schools, etc. The interest of the public for the activity of those officials has shown
itself to be greatest in Central Sweden, least in the relatively more woody northern
parts of the country.
Private forests.
By far the preponderant part of Sweden’s forests, with the
un-reclaimable land about 22 million hectares, or half the area of Sweden,
belongs, as above shown, to private owners, and the private forestry
is consequently a question of the utmost importance for the country.
Leaving aside the northernmost part of the country, for which one has
been compelled to limit the disposal of private forests by special laws
(see below), a survey of the state of the private forests gives the
following result. It is to be observed that the public forests in the parts
of the country mentioned below have a relatively limited extension, or
about 6 per cent of the forest-area (against about 45 per cent in the
northernmost Läns), owing to which circumstance the private forests in
here mentioned parts cast the balance for the general state of the forests.
With regard to the state of the forests south of the Läns of Norrbotten
and Vesterbotten, the three following regions can be distinguished:
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