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    [Archive] Extraction of conifer thinnings
    Lead Author: R. E. Crowther
    Extraction accounts for between 25 per cent, and 75 per cent, of the total costs of production, that is all costs up to roadside ready for despatch, but excluding growing the trees; this percentage, however, depends on the amount of conversion (crosscutting and peeling) and the length and difficulty of the extraction. For this reason, […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] The new forests of Dartmoor
    Lead Author: G. D. Rouse
    In the decade before the war the Forestry Commission took practical steps to meet the increasing needs of the population for large tracts of wild country to be put at their disposal for recreational purposes by establishing Forest Parks, the first such Forest Park being that of Argyll, created by the Forestry Commission with the […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Felling and converting thinnings by hand
    Lead Author: R. E. Crowther
    The Work Study Section of the Forestry Commission has now (1963) been working on production operations for six years and this is a record of sound working methods observed during this period. The credit for developing these methods is due to Forest Workers and Foresters in various parts of the country and the authors have […]
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    [Archive] Aids to working conifer thinnings
    Lead Author: S. Forrester
    This booklet is intended as a guide to some items of equipment which may not be widely known, and particularly to some which have been developed only in the past few years. The purpose of these tools is mainly to make work easier — reducing the effort involved or making operations quicker. Many are intended […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Conversion tables for research workers in forestry and agriculture
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    These tables and charts were prepared by the staff of the Research Branch and by other forest research workers to meet their own needs when preparing data for publication, when meeting foreign visitors and when reading foreign literature. They have been amplified and now are published so that others may avoid the laborious calculations that […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] The dedication of woodlands – principles and procedure
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    It is calculated that, when hostilities ceased in 1945, there were three million acres of privately owned woodlands in Great Britain and that of this acreage only half was productive; and it is well known that not all the productive woodlands were being efficiently managed to produce timber of the quality or quantity of which […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Rusts of British forest trees
    Lead Author: J.S. Murray
    The rust fungi or Uredinales are an important group of plant parasites, causing great losses to agricultural and forest crops each year. The life cycle of a typical rust is complex, as live types of spores are produced on two different and unrelated hosts, certain of the spore types being always borne on one host […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Chestnut blight
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    In Britain, the sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa, is at the northern limit of its distribution, and as a forest tree it is of importance in the southern half of England only. So far, in Britain, it has not been seriously affected by disease, however, it is a serious matter that Chestnut Blight, which has ravaged […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Woodland mosses
    Lead Author: H. Watson
    In present-day afforestation much attention is devoted to the wild plants as indicating soil and climatic conditions, but within recent times the ordinary mosses have been proved to be just as important. In the following notes an effort will be made, first to give a life history of a moss, secondly to indicate, as far […]