Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - IV. Forestry - 1. Forests. By Th. Örtenblad
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
public forests.
173
es, or which have been donated by private individuals, the timber produced is
assigned to the benefit of the clergyman residing in the said house and of
that of the parish, in accordance with a special resolution of the Government
and the tenor of the deed of gift. The new legislation regarding these matters
will bring about essential alterations in the method of disposal of the timber
obtained from the church-forests. As a rule, the rectories and other dwellings of
the clergy will be let, and the timber obtained each year will, in the first place,
go to supply the household needs of the lease-holder. If there be a sufficient
supply to enable it to be done, the holder of the benefice will also be given
timber for his household needs, and the parish will receive building timber for
the rectories and the churches. Money received from the sale of timber from the
church-forests will, as a rule, be placed in the church-fund, which will be formed
from the existing ecclesiastical funds.
The area of forests belonging to Public Institutions such as churches,
academies, hospitals, etc., amounts to 40 844 hectares.
Forests appertaining to Crown farms and settlements. Their return goes to
the tenant. The total area amounts to 699 300 hectares.
B) The total area of the Forests belonging to the Hundreds (the
Common Forests) amounts to 98 937 hectares. The part-owners in the forests
of a hundred are tire persons that live in that hundred, and their shares
are in proportion to the number of original taxation-areas each occupies.
The forests of the hundreds may not be divided, but must be kept
undiminished in area and must be cared for in accordance with such economic
principles — based on scientific principles — as aim at the continued
survival of, and the greatest returns from, the forests. If the common forest
of a hundred has not been placed under the administration and care of the
Forest Service, the State foresters shall, nevertheless, see that the economic
principles laid down for this class of forests are followed. The products
obtained form the forest of a hundred are used, in the first place, to defray
the expenses of the keepers and the management; secondly, for such
building purposes as are common to the whole hundred, and lastly, for
distribution among the part-owners.
C) The Parish Forests amount, altogether, to 559 601 hectares. The
parish forests (the forest-commons of the parishes) in the Län of
Norrbotten are under the care and administration of the Forest Service. They were
formed by the land-owners of the various parishes having decided at the
"Delimitation" to reserve part of their forest-grant to form common forest
land. The area of such forests amounts to 292 295 hectares. The
existence of the parish forests (surplus forests and forest-commons) in the Läns
of Gävleborg and Kopparberg is due to the fact that, at the "general
repartition of land" (v. p. 31), large areas of forest were granted to
certain parishes, on condition that the said forests should be employed for the
purpose of forming parish-forests common to all the landholders. The
area of these forests is 267 306 hectares. The regulations in force with
regard to their care and management impose very slight restrictions on
the part-owners’ right of disposal of the timber obtained, so that the
forests may, in some cases, have been too freely thinned. Considerable
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
