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-fifth Journal includes information on:
- Royal Forestry Society—summer meeting in North Wales, 8th-13th May 1966;
- Royal Scottish Forestry Society 69th annual excursion to North East Scotland, 16th-20th May 1966;
- Post-graduate studies and fellowship, Canada and the U.S.A. 1964-65;
- Expedition to the Guyana rainforest;
- Scots pine: Report of a technical discussion at annual excursion of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, Inverness, Thursday 24th September 1959;
- The native pinewoods and their management;
- The formation of Scots pine plantations with particular reference to seed provenance;
- Management of Scots pine plantations;
- The utilization of Scots pine;
- The story of the Christmas tree;
- The evolution of the theory and practice in the management of a forest nursery;
- Aerial fertilization at Kilmory forest;
- Development of chemical weeding on Ministry of Defence woodlands, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire;
- The cultivation of felled woodland;
- Microbiological activity in soils and its influence on the availability of major nutrients to plants;
- Problems of peatland afforestation in Ireland;
- Nutrient status of boglands and their microbiology with regard to afforestation;
- Tariffing of thinnings;
- Problems and rewards in processing and storing seed;
- A Mesolithic chipping-floor in the Rhondda forest;
- Historical account of the forests of Argyll;
- Historical account of the woodlands of Ross and Cromarty;
- Notes on the history of Blairadam forest, Fife;
- Savernake: History of the forest;
- Alice Holt Lodge;
- Guns, from the farm safety leaflet of the Ministry of Agriculture;
- Public recreation in Forestry Commission areas in North West England;
- Wildlife and the forester; Improvement of spawning streams for brown trout;
- Pine martens, notes from conservancies;
- The latest Elsan, a lavatory suitable for our forests;
- The management of woodland nature reserves;
- Hill sheep;
- The Strath Oykel plan;
- Scottish pulp and paper mills, an achievement of historic importance;
- The success story of forestry, major role in Fort William project;
- Workington— Britain’s first fully integrated pulp and board mill;
- Homegrown timbers: larch;
- A cheaply built drier;
- Average price for each country: coniferous timber sold standing;
- Some aspects of labour relations;
- Forest workers’ diet;
- Trees on tip will be a memorial;
- A ride with Ianto;
- The Loch Ness Monster;
- Poetry;
- Book reviews.