Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1879 — Forests in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Forests in Europe.

The proportion of land covered with forests throughout Europe is 29 per cent., of which Russia and Sweden furnish the greatest part. In Russia, 40 per cent, of territory is covered with woods, and of this some 200,000,000 acres are covered with pines and other cone-bearing trees. Sweden and Norway have 34 per cent., chiefly birch, maple, pine, fir and willow. Austria has 29 per cent., Germany has 26 per cent, and France 17. Far below these comes Spain, with its cork woods and evergreen oak forests, covering 7 per cent, of the land, and Holland and Belgium with the same. Portugal comes next with 5 per cent., and Great Britain follows with 4 per cent. The percentage annually decreases in all countries rapidly.