Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — Great Forests. [ARTICLE]

Great Forests.

Canada owns a forest larger in area than the whole of England, Scotland and Wales all put together. The greatest length of Britain is 608 miles, and its greatest width 325 miles, while a Canadian forest in the Hudson bay and Labrador region is 1,000 by 1,700 miles in extent. Another big forest stretches from Alaska to Washington State. The Amazon basin, South America, comprises about 2,100 by 1,300 miles of a forest, while Central Africa has a forest region 3,000 miles from north to south and of unknown width from east to west, and the pine, larch and cedar forests of Siberia are 3,000' by 1,000 miles In extent.