UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 92yv'J 
                         FOREST SERVICE 
 
ADDRESS REPLY TO 
THE FORESTERI                                   WASHINGTON 
AND REFER TOS 
      REZ                                  February 15, 1936. 
 
 
 
 
      Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
           College of Agriculture, 
                University of Wisconsin, 
                    Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
      Dear Aldo: 
 
                I have just seen your letter of January 9 
      to Nick Carter together with your very interesting 
      paper on "Naturschutz in Germany". There seem to be 
      several figures for the area of forests in Prussia. 
      They range from 7,372,000 hectares to 7,412,000. The 
      larger figure may include the forests of some of the 
      smaller States inside of Prussia. If you want only 
      an approximate figure, 18,000,000 acres is probably 
      close enough. The area of Prussian State forests as 
      of March 31, 1932 was 2,495,771 hectares, of which 
      2,248,848 hectares was forest soil. The total area 
      of State forests increased by 4,800 hectares between 
      1932 and 1934. Probably most of this increase was 
      forest land. 
 
                      Very sincerely yours, 
 
 
 
                            W. N. SPARHAWK, 
                         Senior Forest Economist.