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 thirty-first Journal includes information on:
- The Eighth British Commonwealth Forestry Conference, East Africa, 1962;
- A Tour in North Uganda and Kenya;
- Note on Forest Areas in the Samburu District by Kenya Forest Department;
- Farm Forests in Austria, with Special Reference to Styria;
- Protection Forests in Switzerland;
- A Study Tour in Holland;
- A Visit to Denmark and Holland;
- Report on Rationalisation Course in Arnhem, Holland;
- Royal Scottish Forestry Society: 65th Annual Excursion to Perthshire,1962;
- The Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland: Meeting at Cardiff;
- Problems of Soil Erosion and Stabilisation in Coastal Areas;
- Forestry and Landscape;
- Forestry at the John Colet Secondary School, Wendover, Bucks.;
- Opening of Hendre D du Log Cabin for the Outward Bound Sea School, Aberdovey;
- The New Shepherds; Game Fair, 1962;
- Visitors and Visiting: A Forester’s Other Duties;
- Reflections of an Auditor;
- Changing Times; Cartoon: Busy Beavers;
- Work Study Week at South Strome Forest;
- Maintenance of Power Saw Chains;
- A Method of Tool Storage;
- The Ledmore Mounted Lining-Out Plough, Mark III;
- Extracts from “Forest Products Research 1961”;
- Properties of 30-37 Year Old Sitka Spruce Timber: Extracts from The Forest Products Laboratory Bulletin;
- More Mighty Oaks;
- A Day in the Forest;
- The White Buck of Cannock Chase;
- Cartoon: Swinging The Cat!;
- Pine Cone Collection: Thetford, South District, 1962;
- Corsican Pine Cone Collection at Sherwood, Delamere and Cannock;
- Notes on Corsican Pine Cone Collection at Delamere Forest, 1961—1962;
- Coypu.