. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. necessarily is limited—it was percent of the total area in 1912—it becomes all the more important locally to take good care of what forest there is. And this the Danes have been doing for something over a century. Denmark imports rather than exports unmanufactured lumber. All that the Danish forests produce is needed for home consumption. It follows naturally that forestry in Denmark is intensive, and it is because this is so that gives to the for- est wor
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. necessarily is limited—it was percent of the total area in 1912—it becomes all the more important locally to take good care of what forest there is. And this the Danes have been doing for something over a century. Denmark imports rather than exports unmanufactured lumber. All that the Danish forests produce is needed for home consumption. It follows naturally that forestry in Denmark is intensive, and it is because this is so that gives to the for- est work of the Danes the interest tb£t rightly attaches to it. The total area of Denmark proper, excluding the Faroe Islands and Iceland, is 39,033 square kilometers (14,866 square miles). The forest area is about 333,000 hectare, or 822,500 acres. The population of Denmark in 1920 was reck- oned as about three and one half million. To these figures must now be added the area and population of that part of Schleswig-Holstein that the Great War restored to Denmark. The at Viborg in Jutland, the peninsula that consti- tutes the western portion of Denmark. While not directly applicable to America these several phases of forestry are all of interest and worthy of comment. In connection with the use of the forest as royal game preserves, methods of definite for- est management began to be introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century, so that it was no new departure when under the in- fluence of a German forester, Georg von Lang- en, a definite forestry policy was set up in 1763 that paved the way for the enactment in 1805 of a forestry law that is today still in full force and effective operation. Along with the work in the forest came the early establish- ment of a Forest School (1784), so that the Danes make the proud claim to be the first of the Scandinavian countries to get forestry really under way. The forest experiment sta- tion work dates from 1882, reorganized and
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