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forests. 167
Forest-bearing Areas.
Hectares per 100 inhab.
Sweden Russia Germany British
392 har 168 har 22 har Isles
3 har
mostly in Jämtland Län. In 1913, the outfields were divided between
public and private ownership in about the following proportion:
Forests belonging to the State....................................8"3 million hectares
Undelimitated lands1 belonging to the State, inclusive of the naked
fells in the Läns of Västerbotten and Norrbotten................5’2 > »
The property of towns, hundreds and parishes (rural)..............0’7 > >
> > > individuals...................218 > >
Total 36 0 million hectares
According to this above table, therefore, 37-5 °/o of all the outfield-land
of Sweden belongs to the State; 1-9 % is the property of towns, hundreds,
or parishes, and 60-6 % belongs to private individuals.
Of the total amount of outfield-land, or 36 029 088 hectares, no less
than 14 405 480 hectares are timberless, some in consequence of the land
lying above the forest-limit, and some, ljàng below that line, because the
soil itself is irreclaimable, consisting of rocks, bogs or morasses, or, for
one reason or another, is marked by an absence of timber, as in the case of
heather-covered moors, fire-ravaged areas, or areas where the trees have
newly been cut down. The wooded area, therefore, amounts to 21 623 608
hectares. These figures (concerning 1911), however, are considered as
somewhat unreliable.
In calculating the national wealth of Sweden, the value of the timber
and the timber-covered land was estimated in 1908 as follows:
Forests belonging to the State...... 230 439 000 kronor
Other public forests........... 79104 000
Private forests............. 1 247 651 000
Total 1557194000 kronor
1 Delimitated land (Sw. avvittrad mark) is the term employed to distinguish the tracts
of land which, after survey, are apportioned between the State and private persons.
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