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IT has long been a dream of the forest officer in charge of considerable areas of more or less out-of-the-way forests in the British Commonwealth to ensure having available a labour force to carry out the ever-recurring works in the area, and to establish one or more forest villages entirely under his own sway which would ensure a certain permanency of labour. This objest has not always been understood by the administrative officers responsible for the government of the region, and the forest officer has been regardea with suspicion as endeavouring to get a section of the population under his own administrative charge. This has been the case where there have been large existing forests.
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STEBBING, E. The Forest of AE, Dumfries. Nature 164, 119–120 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164119b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164119b0