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[Archive] Metric volume ready reckoner for round timber

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
These tables are the metric equivalent of the old established Hoppus tables and are used in exactly the same way. Mid diameters in centimetres are used instead of mid quarter girth in inches, lengths are expressed in metres rather than in feet, and volumes are given in cubic metres.
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[Archive] Timber! Your growing investment

Lead Author: Herbert L. Edlin
This Booklet contains a short account of the Commission’s achievements in the last fifty years, from 1919 until 1969.
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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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[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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[Archive] Thinning control in British woodlands

Lead Author: R.T. Bradley
Thinning control in British woodlands
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[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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[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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Report on Forest Research for the year ended March, 1960

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1959. The report includesIntroductionSummary of the year’s workPart i Reports of work carried out by Forestry Commission research staff-Forest tree seed investigations -Nursery investigations -Silvicultural investigations in the forest: (a) south and central England and Wales (b) Scotland and northern England-Provenance studies -Poplars and elms […]
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[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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[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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[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.
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[Archive] The volume-basal area line: a study in forest mensuration

Lead Author: F.C. Hummel
This bulletin is a study in forest mensuration which has arisen out of investigations into the timber content of British woodlands. It deals primarily with the relationship that exists between the volume of a tree and its sectional area at breast height; a relationship here called, for convenience, the volume-basal area line. Studies of this […]
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[Archive] Forestry Practice (4th 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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[Archive] Forestry Practice 1933

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
A summary of methods of establishing forest nurseries and plantations with advice on other forestry questions for owners and agents.

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