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 twenty-third Journal includes information on:
- Lord Robinson, O.B.E; Notes on the sixth British Commonwealth Forestry Conference, 1952, and forestry in Canada;
- A visit to Denmark and Sweden;
- Forest tree breeding in Sweden;
- Italian and Swiss research;
- Forest pathology in Eire;
- Pinus contorta in County Wicklow, Eire;
- Picea omorika;
- The British Association Meeting in Liverpool, 1953;
- Preserving Scots pine strains after the 1953 windblow in North-east Scotland;
- The Kinver nursery;
- A method of working heavy nursery soils with a ridge plough;
- Seedbed root pruning machines;
- Raising hardwood planting stocks by undercutting;
- Eradication of rhododendrons;
- Natural regeneration at 1,200 feet above sea level at Glasfynydd Forest;
- A grazing experiment in Redesdale Forest;
- A hybrid larch stand at Staindale, Allerston Forest;
- A modern approach to thinning practice;
- Smallwood from conifer thinnings;
- Lightning and forest fires at Rosedale Forest;
- Lightning and forest fires at Langdale Forest;
- Thetford type static water tanks;
- Observations on windblow in young plantations at Allerston;
- Rabbit clearance in King’s Forest, 1947 to 1951;
- Vole damage to trees at ten feet from ground level;
- Dendroctonus micans, a continental pest of Sitka spruce;
- Fomes annosus in East Anglian pine sample plots;
- Forest bridges;
- The integration of Forest Officers duties in Commission forests and private woodlands;
- The balance sheet and supporting schedules;
- Natural history notes from the Highlands;
- Report of the Lynford School Bird Club;
- Raids on nest boxes by weasels;
- Natural vegetation of oakwoods in Alice Holt Forest;
- The marsh pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, as a weed in Newborough Nursery.