British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Supplement - Page 40

(p. 431) (T. 4)

PLANTATIONS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1946.

Range

I Hill I Plain I Sand dunes I Total

-Dunums 1 Acres - Dunums I Acres – Dunums| Acres Dunums ( Acres

Acre I I =I 403 I
- - 403 101 - 101
Beisan - - 319 77 - 319 77
Jenin 170 40 - - - - 170 40
Haifa 3,200 800 - - - - 3,200 800
Nablus 490 120 - - - - 490 120
Had era - - 946 2a2 - - 946 232
Nazareth 3,390 848 - - - - 3,390 848
Salad 432 105 - - - - 432 105
Tiberias 2,498 G:.>5 - - - - 2,498 625
Coast - r--« 99 24 780 195 879 219
Gaza - - - - 8,344 2,0$6 8,344 2,086
Hebron 4,199 1,035 - - - - 4,199 1,035
Jerusalem 8,602 2,125 839 210 - - 9,441 2,335
TOTAL I 22,981 15,6981 2,6061 6441 ~12412,2811~__".~28

NOTE:-In general, hill plantations arc conifer, plains-eucalyptus and sand dunes-acacia.

(p. 434) (§ 24)

The total area of sand dunes in Palestine is over 350,000 dunums. A scheme for the fixation of 100 ,000 dunums of these dunes within the next 10 years has been commenced. In the past few years the Department of Forests has laid down 12,000 dunums of wattles (acacia cyanophylla plantations) designed to fix loose sand and to provide a crop of firewood. During the war several thousand tons of firewood were supplied to the Forces from this source. Two new Forest Nurseries were started in 1946 with a capacity of over one million plants which are to be used for free distribution and for departmental plantations.

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