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 Russia; Bison in Poland, Polish Cultural Institute;
- The care and use of cross-cut saws;
- The Mid-Wales survey;
- Planting forests in Wales The Chilterns project;
- History of Ratagan Forest; Historical notes on the forests of Alice Holt and Woolmer;
- Four Cornish forests;
- The Crarae forest garden;
- A working plan for policy woodlands;
- Lake Vyrnwy forest, Montgomeryshire;
- Reay Forest, Sutherland;
- Notes on the British Association meeting at Sheffield — September 1956;
- Three new nature reserves;
- Sunbiggin tarn and moor;
- A visit to Coniston Old Man;
- The collection of cones from tall trees;
- Ledmore nursery;
- Notes on farm implements used in forest practice;
- Sowing trials of graded acorns at Willingham Nursery in 1953;
- Work on limestone soils at Dalton Forest, Westmorland — 1951-55;
- Afforestation of iron stone workings in Northamptonshire;
- Planting the hard lee flow;
- Tine ploughing at Speymouth;
- Japanese larch on an area of rank weed growth;
- The economic approach to weeding in the establishment of trees;
- A note on some mixed conifer plantations in Mid-Wales;
- Some notes on the management of natural ash crops;
- Cultivation of willows for basket making;
- Eucalyptus at Whittingehame Estate, East Lothian;
- Araucarias at Monreith Estate, Wigtownshire;
- Notes on some North American trees;
- Prevent forest fires; Fire on the hills; Introducing pyrology;
- A handy trailer for fire fighting;
- Notes on fire protection at Lyminge Forest, Kent;
- The control of deer in Commission forests, with particular reference to England;
- The roe deer;
- Fighting the pine beauty moth with the Todd insecticidal fog applicator;
- Needle diseases of conifers; Forest engineering economics;
- British forestry development in the early twentieth century;
- Education for administration;
- Should we go back?;
- Discounts and decimals;
- A fish hatchery;
- Greenfinches and Lawson cypress;
- British timbers The Brandon Depot, Thetford Chase;
- The Ari Sawmill at Strachur;
- The Chipboard Factory at Annan;
- The preparation of wood wool at Mortimer Forest;
- What can there be in a ladder?;
- The use of wood in musical instruments;
- Charcoal burning in Sussex;
- Conifer barks as a source of tannins for the leather industry.