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IN the Forestry Commission Booklet No. 2 (H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1948) the purpose of the scheme for the dedication of private woodlands is explained. This purpose is to encourage the application of systematic management to private woodlands, become necessary, it is said, in the interests of national security because the reserves of standing timber have been greatly depleted during and since the War ; and it might be added are still suffering from more or less crude over-felling, especially in the hardwood areas. Under the scheme the owner undertakes to use the land in such a way that timber production is the main object ; to work to a plan to be approved by 4 the Forestry Commission ; to employ skilled supervision, and to keep adequate accounts. The object of the scheme is to ensure that replanting or regeneration of woodlands cut during the War shall proceed with continuity and rapidity, that this work in its young stages must be looked after until the young woods are established and, it is to be proposed, after that stage has been reached. Owners must make up their minds as to whether they are prepared to work the scheme ; if they agree, they will receive State financial assistance. If the owner is unwilling to join the scheme or keep his woodland areas in proper order, the State will acquire them. Finally, some system of control of the sylviculture of private woodlands is deemed necessary.
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Dedication of Private Woodlands. Nature 162, 364 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162364b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162364b0