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    [Archive] The plan of operations
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This booklet has been prepared primarily for the guidance of landowners who have already brought, or who wish to bring, their woodlands into the Dedication or the Approved Woodland Schemes of the Forestry Commission. It contains information on the preparation of the plan and map and on management and record keeping.
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    Forestry publication document

    [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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    [Archive] Forestry Practice (8th 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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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Pruning conifers for the production of quality timber
    Lead Author: D.W. Henman
    Experimental pruning of conifer crops was begun by the Forestry Commission in 1931 and the results of the experiments have been assessed up to date, but the final assessment, that of the pruned timber, still lies in the future. The main purpose of this Bulletin is to indicate the extent of the experimental work done […]
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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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    [Archive] Code of sample plot procedure
    Lead Author: F.C. Hummel
    The systematic measurement of sample plots in stands of growing timber provides the data for the compilation of yield tables and other estimates of increment which are essential to the economic management of woodlands. In order that such measurements shall be strictly comparable, both as between one sample plot and another, and within the same […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [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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    Forestry publication document

    [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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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forestry Practice (4th 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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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forestry Practice 1933
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    A summary of methods of establishing forest nurseries and plantations with advice on other forestry questions for owners and agents.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Growth and yield of conifers in Great Britain
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This publication is a revision of Bulletin 3, ‘Rate of Growth of Conifers in the British Isles’. In this revised work the original tables for European larch, Scots pine and Norway spruce have been retained unaltered, while complete yield tables for Douglas fir and Corsican pine have been added. Further, a revised preliminary yield table […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Rate of growth of conifers in the British Isles
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    A survey for the collection of statistics as to the rate of growth and production of timber was begun in the summer of 1917, at a time when the large demands for timber required for military purposes and the mining industry were being met mainly from British woods. Extensive fellings were in progress in all […]