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State property is exactly in those regions which are
suitable for forests, and where, as already mentioned,
there is only a small population. Others of these
Crown lands are on the heights of the interior of
Vasa and in the east of Kuopio and Viborg.
Fourteen million acres of the entire total is dry forest soil,
and 21 millions bogs, rocks, and water. Some of the
bogs and marshes, however, produce timber, their area
being reckoned in 1869 at 5 million acres. Barely
8¾ million acres of forest are located where at present
they are profitable. On another 3 million acres are
found young trees, or soil capable of producing
valuable timber.
Not till 1850—51 was it decided to establish a
proper forest administration. In earlier times officials
were appointed chiefly to look after the hunting and
shooting; in other respects the State property, even
when finally separated from the common lands of the
peasants, was managed by the regular district officials.
Business such as the organisation of farms which
could pay taxes was of greater public interest. Baron
Edmund von Berg, the President of the renowned
Forest School of Tharand in Saxony, was now
summoned, and it was on his advice (which, however, was
only partially followed) that an Administration for
the Forests was established in 1859, with additions
made in 1863. That this is not yet sufficient is due,
among other causes, to the enormous size of the
districts under its control, there being four districts of
more than 3¾ million acres, twelve of over 250,000
acres, twenty-five of over 60,000 acres, and nine of
a smaller extent. The forest guards are numerous
compared to the foresters at the head of the districts,
but these guards are uneducated men with a very
small salary. Up to the present time little has been
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