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FORESTRY
Of the total area of the country, which is 124,495 sq. miles,
about 3 % are represented by towns, grain-fields and
meadow-land, [[** sjk bindestrek]] while about 76 % are represented by outfields, grazing land,
bogs, bare rock, snow fields and glaciers; the remainder, 21 % or
26,324 (or with the towns 26,340) sq. miles, is considered to be
covered by forests.
In southern Norway there are a few scattered and very small
forests, consisting of deciduous trees of those species which cannot
well withstand the influence of cold, such as beech (Fagus sylvatica),
oak (especially Quercus pedunculata), and elm (Ulmus montana),
but these are of little importance for the sylviculture of the
country. The beech occurs wild as far north as the 61st degree
of latitude, but it only forms forest around the town of Larvik
and in a few other places. It attains a height of somewhat more
than 80 feet. The oak is found wild as far north as the 61st
degree, in the interior of the country, near Lakes Mjøsen and
Randsfjord, and up to the 63rd degree on the coast. It may
reach a height of between 100 and 130 feet, and now forms a
few scattered smaller forests on the southern and eastern coasts;
but in former days it occurred much more extensively. The elm
grows all over the country up to the polar circle, but only in one
single place there is a small elm forest. It may attain a height
of somewhat more than 100 feet. The real forest trees of the
country are the Scotch fir (Pinus silvestris; in Norwegian called
«furu»), spruce (Picea excelsa; in Norwegian called «gran») and
birch (Betula verrucosa and odorata). With the exception of the
spruce which, apart form a single valley, Saltdalen, hardly forms
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