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    [Archive] The Gwent Small Woods Project 1979-84
    Lead Author: J.W.L.I. Zehetmayr
    This five year experiment in woodland management arose out of earlier investigations into the state of small woodlands in Gwent by the County Council, and by the Dartington Amenity Research Trust on behalf of the Countryside Commission. The experiment was carried out under the direction of a steering group drawn from a wide range of […]
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    [Archive] Conifers (3rd edition)
    Lead Author: Alan F. Mitchell
    Alan Mitchell’s fascinating guide to conifers features 40 types: two natives, the rest brought to Britain over the years.
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    [Archive] Ploughing of forest soils (FC Leaflet 71 – 1984)

     This Leaflet gives practical recommendations for ploughing forest soils in Great Britain.
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    [Archive] Silviculture of broadleaved woodland
    Lead Author: J. Evans
    The object of this Bulletin is to assist all who are concerned with the management or cultivation of broadleaves. Much practical silvicultural advice is included, and many recommendations are made with the main emphasis on the silvicultural techniques used to grow good quality timber. But broadleaved woodlands are important for much more than timber production […]
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    [Archive] Technology transfer in forestry
    Lead Author: G.H. Moeller (Ed)
    This Bulletin contains papers presented at the second Subject Group meeting held at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 25 July-1 August 1983. The need for efficient transfer of new forestry knowledge is critical throughout all the various IUFRO Subject Groups. Group S6.08 serves as a clearing-house for ideas related to procedures, processes and methods for application […]
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    [Archive] The use of chemicals (other than herbicides) in forest and nursery
    Lead Author: O.N. Blatchford
    This is the first Booklet dedicated to chemicals other than herbicides used in forestry. It is suggested that this publication is kept with its companion volume The use of herbicides in the forest (Booklet 51) to give a comprehensive reference to the use of all chemicals in the forest. Although produced primarily for internal use […]
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    [Archive] A key to eucalypts in Britain and Ireland
    Lead Author: J. Evans
    This Booklet describes the species named in an Arboriculture Research Note on eucalypts in Britain by Evans (1980) plus a few others, and the principal species grown in Ireland referred to by Mooney (1960). The most successful species are from areas of temperate climate in Australia and are relatively frost tolerant. The characters used are […]
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    [Archive] Research for practical arboriculture – proceedings of the Forestry Commission / Arboricultural Association seminar at Preston, February 1980
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This Paper presents the report of the seminar, which represents more an interim review rather than a record of completed research. The seminar covered the following main subject area: amenity tree management, better value trees, planting on man-made sites, and clonal selection.
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    [Archive] Aerial application of insecticide against pine beauty moth
    Lead Author: A.V. Holden (Ed.)
    During 1979, further spraying operations of Lodgepole pine forests in northern Scotland with fenitrothion, to control outbreaks of Pine beauty moth were necessary using the ultra-low volume technique, and monitoring operations were undertaken partly to confirm the observations of the previous year, but also, in some instances, to provide additional information on the extent of […]
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    [Archive] Yield models for forest management
    Lead Author: P.N. Edwards
    This booklet, with its associated yield models and curves, replaces Forestry Commission Booklet Number 34 Forest Management Tables (Metric) by G. J. Hamilton and J. M. Christie, which was published by HMSO in 1971. Yield models can be constructed to simulate the effects of any silvicultural treatment, and the ‘normal yield tables’ included in the […]
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    [Archive] Progress reports (1973-79) by Forestry Commission GB and Forestry Division NI for the eleventh Commonwealth Forestry Conference 1980
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Progress reports (1973-79) by Forestry Commission GB and Forestry Division NI for the eleventh Commonwealth Forestry Conference 1980, covering for each organisation, chapters on – forest policy, forest management, services to management, harvesting and market planning, utilisation of forest products and forest products research, and a statistical summary.
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    [Archive] Grey squirrel control (FC Leaflet 56 – 1980 (2ed))

     This leaflet discusses options for controlling grey squirrels.