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-first Journal includes information on:
- Lessons from Sweden;
- Notes on afforestation and nursery work in the North-Eastern United States;
- The treatment of devastated woodland;
- Notes on the state forests of West Glamorgan;
- Craig Phadrig Forest;
- Glen Urquhart Forest;
- Guisachan Forest;
- Whence the seed?;
- Acorn collection and storage;
- Beech seed collection;
- Comparisons of three methods of storing beech mast;
- Vermin destruction in seed stores;
- Problems affecting heathland nurseries and their produce;
- Heathland nurseries at Devilla;
- Preparation of a heathland nursery;
- Further notes on compost and its application;
- Nursery mechanisation;
- Lining-out seedlings;
- Lupin as a green crop;
- Kinver nursery;
- Ploughing the Yorkshire Moors for tree planting, 1869;
- The formation in one year of a single plantation of one thousand acres;
- Planting Douglas fir in rhododendrons at Creag Liath, Glen Garry Forest;
- A new planting bag;
- Turf planting of birch;
- Thinning plans;
- Thinning by piece work, estimation of average volume per pole. (Technical Instruction No. 1/49);
- Pruning of oak;
- Pruning of Corsican pine;
- Growth comparisons of Scots and lodgepole pines on heather areas at Gwydyr Forest;
- The selection of sites for Japanese and hybrid larches;
- Exceptional growth of Japanese larch;
- The growth of beech in relation to type;
- Black Italian poplars at Thetford;
- A fire at Cannock Chase;
- Fire danger at Clipstone;
- Fire beater stands;
- Deer through the eyes of a non-forester;
- Rabbits in hazel coppice;
- Grey squirrel damage;
- Bird scaring at Savernake;
- Beetle attacks following fires at Wareham Forest;
- Barypeithes pellucidus at Haldon;
- Barypeithes araneiformis;
- The marking and sale of thinnings;
- Methods of extraction of thinnings at Glentress Forest;
- Douglas pale fencing;
- Notes on the wood-using industries of New York;
- Produce from a twenty-three-year-old silver fir plantation;
- Another angle on soils;
- Forest roadwork in the North West England Conservancy;
- The mechanical development committees;
- The utilisation of the high tops;
- Dedicating the Cawdor Woodlands;
- Putting it on paper;
- A note on silvicultural literature in the United States of America;
- Additions to the Forestry Commission Library;
- United Nations Scientific Conference on the conservation and utilisation of resources;
- Organisation and methods in a conservancy office;
- The replacement of forest clerical staff by Area Officers;
- Publications work;
- On showing off forests;
- Rainy weather;
- The weather in forest year 1949;
- The staff suggestion scheme;
- A course at Northerwood;
- A tribute to the pioneers.