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    [Archive] Fifty-first Annual Report of the Forestry Commission 1970-1971

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Published by HMSO, for the year ending 31 March 1971.
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    [Archive] Thinning control in British woodlands (metric)

    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
    This booklet provides a simple guide to the volume to be removed when thinning pure even-aged stands, or with suitable modifications, when thinning woods of mixed species and/or of uneven age. It replaces Booklet 17, the imperial version, from 1966.
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    [Archive] Operational research and the managerial economics of forestry

    Lead Author: P.A. Wardle (Ed)
    At the Fourteenth Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations held in Munich in September 1967, a Working Group was set up in the Economics Section, Section 31, to consider the contribution of operational research to studies in the field of the managerial economics of forestry. In September 1970, members of this working […]
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    [Archive] Windblow of Scottish forests in January 1968

    Lead Author: B.W. Holtham (Ed)
    A very severe westerly gale blew across central Scotland in the early hours of 15 January 1968. This report describes damage it did to forests and tells how representatives of the private woodland owners, the home timber trade and the Forestry Commission, appointed to an advisory committee called the Windblow Action Group, appraised and advised […]
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    [Archive] Forest management tables (metric)

    Lead Author: G.J. Hamilton
    The tables included in this Booklet are designed as aids to the management of forests in British conditions and where profitability is a primary objective. The Booklet is divided into four parts which are: The Yield Class System of Classifying Growth Potential Thinning Control Production Forecasting Yield Tables This publication is a revised, metric edition of Forestry Commission Booklet 16, […]
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    [Archive] The plan of operations (metric)

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    With the general introduction of metric measurements in the dedicated and approved woodlands schemes with effect from October 1971, the opportunity has been taken to re-examine the form of the standard Plan of Operations. This study has been carried out by the Forestry Commission in close consultation with the Timber Growers Organisation and the Scottish […]
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    [Archive] Gwydyr forest in Snowdonia: a history

    Lead Author: Donald L. Shaw
    In 1920 the Forestry Commission began the transformation of a great expanse of steep hillside and moorland, around Betws-y-Coed in North Wales, into modern productive forest. The few old oakwoods that remained, and the remarkable scenery of riverside, lake and crag were treated with the consideration they merited when spruce, larch, pine and Douglas fir […]
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    [Archive] Metric conversion tables and factors for forestry

    Lead Author: J.E. Everard
    This Booklet builds on the information provided in Booklet 5 Conversion tables for research workers in forestry and agriculture. Additional tables have been added, while other tables of limited use have been removed. Numerous conversion factors have been included to enable conversions to be made for less frequently used units.
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    [Archive] Conifer wooly aphids (Adelgidae) in Britain

    Lead Author: C.I. Carter
    This investigation has been mainly confined to providing descriptions for the identification of the various winged morphs of the adelgid species occurring in Britain. Morphological keys and descriptions, together with 32 figures, are given for the determination of the 14 winged morphs of the 9 species having alatae. In addition, a key to the adult […]
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    Report on Forest Research 1971

    Report on Forest Research for the year ending 31 March 1971
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    [Archive] Fiftieth Annual Report of the Forestry Commission 1969-1970

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Published by HMSO, for the year ended 31 March 1970.
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    [Archive] Metric top diameter sawlog tables

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This Booklet contains tables which give volumes of softwood sawlogs for given lengths and top diameters in metric units.