. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. existing forest. Ten years is too long a time to wait tor returns on a speculative venture. And there seems to have been the idea, too, that after an owner had cared for his forest for a decade, he would have got the habit and desire for continuing proper management. Anyway the 1805 law is still in force, and particularly the ten-year cutting provision. There is likelihood that all the Danish for- est laws will be codified, amended and re-en- acted at an early
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. existing forest. Ten years is too long a time to wait tor returns on a speculative venture. And there seems to have been the idea, too, that after an owner had cared for his forest for a decade, he would have got the habit and desire for continuing proper management. Anyway the 1805 law is still in force, and particularly the ten-year cutting provision. There is likelihood that all the Danish for- est laws will be codified, amended and re-en- acted at an early session of parliament, but it was the opinion of more than one Danish forest- er that the essential provisions of the law of 1805 were fairly sure to be continued. In Den- mark, as in Sweden, the public appreciates the value of the forests and apparently makes little objection to the law nor attempts to evade it. Some railroad fire laws have recently been enacted (1920) that provide for the payment of damages by the railways for fires set from sparks from the locomotives. These are of in- The forest area of Denmark (333,000 hectare) is divided into a number of classes of owner- ship: State forests, 17 percent; sand dune for- ests, 7 percent; communal forests, 2 percent; estate and "foundation" forests, 21 percent; those controlled by the Heath Society, 2 per- cent; association and corporation owned for- ests. 4 percent; privately owned (largely in small holdings), 47 percent. The Danish Forest Service is a branch of the Department of Agriculture (Landbrugs- ministeriet) and has two principal divisions: That charged with administering the state for- ests and the dunes (Domaene Kontoret), and that which oversees the privately owned for- est land (Landvaesenskontoret). The head- quarters are in Copenhagen but there are vari- ous districts covering the country. Under old laws the forest lands belonging tc the families of the nobility could be neither sold nor mortgaged,
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