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liberal treatment is mainly a result of modern false
sentimentality. Men in authority are by no means
the last among those who profess democratic views
and wish to be friends of the peasants, even where
their action violates common sense. In the far north
it would be especially detrimental to the country to
destroy what is still left of the woods. The larger
part of the Lapmark forests still await division between
the Crown and the peasants, but even where the work
has been done it is important to guard the rights of
the Crown. The Lapmark is a vast territory extending
through three degrees of latitude, and hardly used
for anything but reindeer pasture. The government
has been recommended to keep a belt of land 32
kilometres broad on the northern edge of the forest.
A division of the forest between Crown and peasants
is desired here too, so that the trees may be utilised;
already many are becoming valuable, and the great
majority are rotting and losing their value on account
of their age.
Besides the regular forest cultivation there is
other work of great and probably equal importance.
The draining of large or small areas, among other
matters, is often extremely profitable. In 1869 it
was computed that at least 1¼ million acres ought to
be drained; this being often necessary simply to
preserve the existing trees. If nothing is done it
seems that the mosses often grow so rapidly as to
kill the trees, or at least to render the soil too
damp for forest cultivation. In many large districts
the majority of the trees are, it appears, skeletons,
that is to say, they are dead wood. Some improvement,
not less radical, is needed in the system of
floating off the trunks and logs. In some places it is
necessary to prevent private persons from establishing
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