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public forests.
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land to the total, whenever delimitation is carried out, and also by the
addition to these Crown parks of timbered land belonging to the Crown’s
former agricultural estates.
The area of the land purchased since 1875 by the State for the purpose
of adding to the Crown parks is shown by the following figures:
Year Area Price Per hectare
1875 ..... 1 876-09 hectares 51634-00 kr. 28 kr.
1876-80 . . . 11 368-20 778 558-98 . 68 »
1881-85 . . . 952 60 100 487-36 » 105 .
1886-90 . . . 44 660-69 1353 823-70 . 30 »
1891—95 . . . 46 995-72 2 530 689-42 . 54 >
1896-00 . . . 134 451-69 7 889 068-38 . 59 .
1901—05 . . . 54 756-09 5 249 207-50 » 96 >
1906—10 . . . 49 855-98 5 024 716-55 . 101 .
1911—13 . . . 38 258-41 4 208 988-39 » 110 .
Total 383175-47 hectares 27 187 174-28 kr. 71 kr.
These purchases of land have, for the most part, been made in the
southern and central parts of the country.
Space does not allow of more than the following short remarks
concerning the remaining part of the State forest land.
The area of the Crown "överlopps"-lands (v. note, p. 168) amounted in 1913
to 1 204 051 hectares, of which, however, no less than 884 112 hectares consisted
of irreclaimable länd.
Woods belonging to the Crown agricultural domains let on lease have a total
area of 136 565 hectares. The area of these woods diminishes, partly in
consequence of the sale of the farms, and also because certain of the woods are
reserved to add to the Crown Parks.
Tlie forests held on civil tenures are, as a rule, attached to the residences
of rangers and constables, and have a total area of 12 105 hectares. This area
is growing less, however, in consequence of the resumption by the Crown of
such residences, these being then either sold or let.
The drift-sand plantations, situated in the Läns of Blekinge, Kristianstad, and
Halland, embrace 1 349 hectares.
Forests belonging for the most part to the State and under its
administration, and which have been devoted to various other purposes, are, in
the tabular summary on page 168 entered in division B. Under this
heading come the different kinds of forests mentioned below.
The Laplanders’ tax-fell or reindeer-grazing fell-forests, as they are also called
had in 1913 an area of 1 051 065 hectares, of which 163 667 hectares were
timbered. The revenues from these woods are paid into a fund, which is
employed, amongst other things, for the purchase of the land necessary to provide
grazing grounds and wandering-roads for the reindeer.
The forests assigned by the State for the support of the mining’ industry
embrace 36 109 hectares. A part of this area has been re-appropriated by the
Crown, however; the conditions as a result of which the grant was made no
longer existing.
The area of forests allotted for supplying sawmills with timber amounts to
52 959 hectares. At the close of the 18th century and during the first part
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