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    [Archive] Metric guide for forestry
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This guide outlines proposals for the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in British forestry and has been approved by the Forestry Commission and the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee as a basis for more detailed planning by the individual sectors of the industry.
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Thinning control in British woodlands
    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
    Thinning control in British woodlands
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forest management and the harvesting and marketing of wood in Sweden
    Lead Author: B.W. Holtam
    This Bulletin presents the findings of a team of Forestry Commission Officers who visited Sweden and Norway in 1965. The main object of the visit was to study managerial, organisational and technical practices which seemed likely to assist in promoting greater efficiency in the creation and maintenance of state and private woodlands at home and […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Timber extraction by light agricultural tractor
    Lead Author: J.W. Barraclough
    There are real advantages in using the same tractor for nursery work, ride mowing and extraction. Full utilisation of the tractor means low machine costs, fewer stores and easier maintenance. This booklet describes how, in Thetford Forest, the same light agricultural tractors which are used for forest nursery work and forest ride mowing are used […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [Archive] Forest management tables
    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
    The tables in this publication have been prepared with the object of providing a basis for the management of Forestry Commission plantations but they are equally applicable to any plantations which are managed primarily for profit. The Revised Yield Tables for Conifers in Great Britain published in 1953 (Forest Record Number 24) and all previous […]
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    Forestry publication document

    [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] 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] 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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    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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    Forestry publication document

    [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.