The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff.
This seventeenth Journal includes information on: Progress report on research; Ploughing operations; Visit to North Germany; Trial survey of woodlands, 1937; R.S.F.S. summer meeting, 1937; Survey of chafers in forest nurseries; Line-survey method of estimating areas of species in mixed compartments; A forest vision; Working circle; Forestry Commission Social Service Association; Snow storm in the New Forest; Clay-coloured weevil; Commission’s library: new books; Birds in Chopwell Wood; Planting grants; Sitka spruce at Harwood; Tractor ploughing at Allerston; Notes on Allerston I; Turf-planting at Kielder; Sitka spruce on Smale Farm; The lay-out of turf drains; Deer, foxes, etc., in Division I; Transferring of foremen and gangers; Nursery work at Halwill Forest; Checked plants: Cultivation and slag; Tair Onen nursery; Working plans and records; Sitka spruce; Botrytis cinerea on larch transplants; Miscellaneous notes.