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    [Archive] Forestry in the Weald

    Lead Author: C.A. Barrington

    This booklet sets out the natural setting of the woodlands of the Weald, a compact geographical region in the south-east of England. It discusses their history and economic value, and aims to show how they can be preserved both as scenery and as a source of useful timber.

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    [Archive] Know your broadleaves

    Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin

    All broadleaved trees belong to the great natural order of plants called the Dicotyledones, which are distinguished by having two seed-leaves or cotyledons in every seed. There are numerous families of these plants, many of which include both trees and smaller plants. Each family is defined, in a rather complicated...

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    [Archive] Public recreation in national forests: a factual study

    Lead Author: W.E.S. Mutch

    This Booklet presents the results of investigations during 1963 and 1964 into the demand by the public for the recreational use of some national forests in England and Scotland. The research was intended principally as a methodological study, and it forms part of a wider investigation into the multiple use...

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    [Archive] Thinning control in British woodlands

    Lead Author: R.T. Bradley

    Thinning control in British woodlands

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    [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...

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    [Archive] Forestry in the landscape

    Lead Author: Sylvia Crowe

    This booklet, written by Sylvia Crowe, draws largely on the impressions gained from her numerous and extensive visits to forests and woodlands in England, Scotland and Wales during the period when she was the Forestry Commission’s consultant. But the importance of the views expressed stems from Sylvia Crowe’s lifetime of...

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    [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...

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    [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...

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    [Archive] Know your conifers

    Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin

    Conifers, or softwood trees, form a distinct group which has become very important in the world’s economy because they grow fast on poor soils even under harsh climates, and yield timbers that are very suitable for industry. They are now being planted and tended on a growing scale in most...

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    [Archive] Rabbit control in woodlands

    Lead Author: E.V. Rogers

    This Booklet includes all the practical methods of controlling and killing rabbits in this country. Much has been written on the rabbit as the quarry of the sportsman and poacher and it is upon their experience the author has had to draw. Neither of these have the extermination of the...

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    [Archive] Principal butt rots of conifers

    Lead Author: R.J. Gladman

    This booklet is planned as a forester’s guide to the recognition of the three most common and damaging decays of standing conifers in Great Britain. The fungi that cause these rots are the basidiomycetes Heterobasidion annosum (formerly known as Fomes annosus), Armillaria mellea, and Polyporus schweinitzii. They are primary root rotting...

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    [Archive] Double drum winch technique

    Lead Author: R.E. Crowther

    The use of the double drum winch is not familiar to many people and hence this Booklet has been produced in the hope that it will be of assistance to those using the double drum winch for the first time. There are many points of organisation and technique that play...