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    [Archive] Sitka spruce in British Columbia: a study in forest relationships
    Lead Author: W.R. Day
    In the spring and summer of 1952 Mr W.R. Day, Lecturer in Forest Pathology at the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, visited British Columbia. His object was to examine the forest relationships of the Sitka spruce in its natural homeland. The main purpose was to study Sitka spruce as an element in the mixed forests in […]
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    [Archive] Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Forestry Commissioners 1954-1955
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Published by HMSO, for the year ending 30 September 1955.
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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.25)
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    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-fifth Journal includes information on: A forestry visit to […]
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    [Archive] Utilisation of hazel coppice
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This bulletin presents the results of studies carried out on the rate of growth and yield of coppices of the common hazel, and on the utilisation of hazel poles both by traditional means and by modem technical processes. As hazel occupies over 160,000 acres of woodlands in Great Britain, its proper utilisation, where this is […]
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    [Archive] Adelges insects of silver firs
    Lead Author: Issac William Varty
    Insects of the genus Adelges have long been recognised as economically important pests of the valuable timber-producing silver fir trees that comprise the genus Abies. In fact the planting of the common European silver fir, Abies alba, has had to be greatly restricted in Britain because of the depredations of these insects. This Bulletin gives […]
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    [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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    [Archive] Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Forestry Commissioners 1953-1954
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Published by HMSO, for the year ending 30 September 1954.
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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.24)
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    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-fourth Journal includes information on: The forests of Sicily; A […]
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    [Archive] Studies of North-west American forests in relation to silviculture in Great Britain
    Lead Author: R.F. Wood
    During 1952 and 1953, Mr. R. F. Wood, one of the Commission’s forest officers, who had been awarded a Travelling Fellowship by the Nuffield Foundation, visited the forests of British Columbia and the neighbouring territories, to carry out field studies. This region is the home of several trees, such as the Sitka spruce and the […]
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    [Archive] The volume-basal area line: a study in forest mensuration
    Lead Author: F.C. Hummel
    This bulletin is a study in forest mensuration which has arisen out of investigations into the timber content of British woodlands. It deals primarily with the relationship that exists between the volume of a tree and its sectional area at breast height; a relationship here called, for convenience, the volume-basal area line. Studies of this […]
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    [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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    [Archive] Tree root development on upland heaths
    Lead Author: C.W. Yeatman
    The investigation was initiated by the Forestry Commission as part of the programme of research into the afforestation of heathlands. The object of the investigation was to study the root development of coniferous forest crops on upland heaths to determine: (i) The relationships existing between the development of the root systems, the soils, and the […]