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168 iv. forestry.
Public Forests.
The greater part of the public forests, including those not belonging to
the State, are either managed by, or stand under the superintendence of
the Crown Lands Board, which also has the administration of the
agricultural domains belonging to the State.
The area of the public forests amounted to 8 964 663 hectares in 1913.
The corresponding figure for 1911 (for which year more complete returns
are available) was 8 958 448 hectares, 4 988 912 hectares of this consisting
of timber-producing land, and 3 969 536 hectares of irreclaimable land.
Among these forests are included such as belong to hundreds and
communes viz.:
Forests belonging to the Handreds etc. (Commons)..... 98 937 hectares
> » > > Towns............. 34 947 >
> > > » Parishes (rural)......... 559 601 >
Total (1913) 693 485 hectares
A) The State Forests, in the wide sense of the word in which the term
has been employed, above, were distributed as follows, the areas being given
in hectares. (The irreclaimable land is, as a rule, included.)1
In 1890 In 1900 In 1913
Crown Parks......................3 408 751 4 518 066 4 679 968
Crown lands not yet organized2 . . . 1049 249 927 671 1204051
Forests of the Crown Domains ... 240 710 171518 136 565
> » > civil tenures8 .... 16920 14055 12105
Plantations on drift-sands...........1 397_1333_1349
Total A 4 717 027 5 632 643 6 034 038
Forests let to Mining Cos............40 604 32 572 36 109
Forests let to Saw-mill Cos.4 . . . . 269 070 119 835 52 959
Belonging to ecclesiastical benefices . 342 083 348 952 353 655
> public institutions ... 33 379 43 347 40 844
> Crown farms6 ..........1 472 907 1128 044_699 300
Total B 2 158 043 1 672 750 1 182 867
Grand total hectares G 875 070 [ 7 305 393 7 216905
In addition to the above, there are the forests on the reindeer
grazing-grounds on the fells, which grounds embraced 1 051 065 hectares in 1913.
Of this area, however, 887 398 hectares consisted of naked fells and other
irreclaimable land, while 3 208 hectares were smaller plots of Crown
lands let on lease (Sw. "kronolägenheter"), islands, and skerries. The
diminution in the area of the forests belonging to the State as shown by
1 In part there are also included in these figures other public forests than those of the
State; cf. the text. — * (Sw. "överloppsmarker") Grounds left in possession of the State
after delimitation (v. p. I, 226.), or which have not been delimitated but which are
considered to remain State property after the delimitation is completed. — ’ Held by Civil
Servants of various classes. — 4 The "stockfångst" forests as they are called. — 6
Inclusive of the woods belonging to new settlements. Crown farms (Sw. "kronohemman") are
farms held on lease from the Crown, against payment of special dues.
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