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 twenty-eighth Journal includes information on:
- Cartoon: weight lifting or axemanship;
- Notes on a visit to Bulgarian forests;
- Royal Forestry Society: Swiss tour;
- Excursion to Switzerland and Southern Germany;
- Report on a tour to study effects of mechanisation on silviculture in Germany;
- Report on Royal Scottish Forestry Society excursion to Argyll;
- A visit to Glen Affric and Guisachan forests;
- A discussion on Scots pine;
- Our native Scots pine;
- A visit to a forest tree breeding station in East Germany;
- Electrical weed control;
- One-man lining-out board;
- Afforestation on the chalk wolds of East Riding of Yorkshire;
- Afforestation of a former opencast coal site in Coed Morgannwg;
- Course on management and methods, Klagstorp, Sweden;
- Report on the international training course on mechanised forest operations held in Sweden;
- Report on a general course on rationalisation in forestry at Arnhem in Holland;
- The one-man power saw—use and maintenance;
- Extraction of forest produce by cableway in Italy and Switzerland;
- Home-grown timber and the building trade;
- A visit to the Olympia Building exhibition, 1959;
- The Thetford fire plan;
- Crow about railway fires;
- Oh forester! Where is thy bed?;
- Landslide damage to plantation at Moccas, Herefordshire;
- Scots pine defoliation on the West Coast;
- Damage to young beech by the common rat;
- The fascination of badger watching;
- A visit to Ordnance Survey record room and museum;
- Valuing young plantations;
- Notable Arboreta measured since 1950.