Report on Forest Research 1969
Forestry Commission
Forestry Commission
The Report on Forest Research for the year ending 31 March 1969 which includes:
Work carried out by Forestry Commission research and development staff
Forest tree seed; production of planting stock, site studies and the role of minor species; provenance; choice of species; arboriculture; planting; nutrition of forest – crops; forest weed control ; soil moisture, climate and tree growth; drainage; cultivation; regeneration; artificial; natural; stability of crops; ecology ; forest genetics; forest pathology; forest entomology; mammals and birds; statistics; research workshop; photography; publications; research information; planning and economics; work study; timber utilisation development.
Research undertaken for the Forestry Commission at universities and other institutions
– Nutrition experiments in forest nurseries
– Research on forest soils and tree nutrition
– Conifer seedling pathology
– Biology of the fungus Crumenula sororia
– Virus diseases of forest trees
– Studies on insect viruses
– Research on the green spruce aphid, Elatobium abietinum
– Studies on tit and pine looper moth populations at Culbin Forest
– Fish populations in forest streams
– Environmental studies
– Environmental factors and the growth of Sitka spruce
– Hydrological relations of forest and moorland vegetation
– Fires in forest and heathland fuels