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    [Archive] Afforestation of upland heaths

    Lead Author: J.W.L. Zehetmayer
    The upland heaths considered in this Bulletin comprise wide stretches of heather-clad land among the hills along the eastern side of Scotland and Northern England. This Bulletin reviews all the experimental work carried out over a period of thirty-six years, from 1921 to 1957. Many methods tried out in the early years have long since […]
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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.29)

    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-ninth Journal includes information on: Tours on the West […]
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    [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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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.28)

    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-eighth Journal includes information on: Cartoon: weight lifting or […]
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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.27)

    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-seventh Journal includes information on: Fire cartoon; A visit […]
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    [Archive] Forestry Practice (7th edition)

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    A summary of methods of establishing forest nurseries and plantations with advice on other forestry questions for owners, agents and foresters.
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    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.26)

    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-sixth Journal includes information on: Forestry, agriculture, and marginal […]
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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] 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] 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 […]