. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. this law has had very beneficial results and is good as far as it goes, but they are not satis- fied with it and at an early session of parlia- ment, probably however not until 1923, a bill will be introduced that may, if it becomes law, considerably alter the character of the regula- tions and perhaps even introduce some silvi- cultural requirements. But that is a matter for the future and can only come about after there has been full discussion of the whole
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. this law has had very beneficial results and is good as far as it goes, but they are not satis- fied with it and at an early session of parlia- ment, probably however not until 1923, a bill will be introduced that may, if it becomes law, considerably alter the character of the regula- tions and perhaps even introduce some silvi- cultural requirements. But that is a matter for the future and can only come about after there has been full discussion of the whole question. Another forest law of some interest is that whereby ownership of forest land in any large amount is restricted to residents of the dis- trict. The purpose of this law was to prevent speculative holding of forest areas, particularly by aliens; although it also applies to Nor- wegians who are non-residents of the district in question. THE NORWEGIAN FOREST SERVICE The Norwegian Forest Service (Skogvaese- net) is a branch of the Department of Agricul- skole) at Aas, near Kristiania. There are also several ranger schools. One piece of work, now going on in Norway, is of especial interest to Americans—a compre- hensive survey of the forest resources of the country. So far only one fylke, or district, has been covered, that of ostfold in the south- eastern corner of the country, but it is proposed to extend the survey to include all of the com- mercially valuable forest areas. The method followed is to gridiron the district with strip survey lines, spaced fairly close together, so that an accurate estimate will result, both of merchantable timber and of the young growth. With this are of course collected various other facts and figures of general interest. The making available of exact data of this sort gives a basis on which proper methods of forest management can rest. There would be less discussion and more accomplishment in forest- ry in the United States if we had a s
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