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THE position of private forestry in Great Britain was dealt with by Lord Clinton in an address delivered at the annual meeting of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society and published in a recent issue of the Scottish Forestry Journal. Lord Clinton pointed out that some 50,000 acres of woods had been felled during and immediately after the War, and that but a small proportion of this area had been replanted. “The causes,” he said, “are quite easily seen. It is partly, but not wholly, owing to the War. It is mainly due to penal taxation during the War and later, which has made it impossible for many owners to replant their land. … It is very difficult indeed to get any exact estimate of this downhill progress, but we have estimates, for what they are worth, and it appears to us [the Forestry Commissioners] that there is being felled annually throughout the Kingdom a total of about 50 million cubic feet, representing perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 or even more acres, and we cannot ascertain that there is a larger area being planted than about 12,000 acres, obviously a quite insufficient replacement.”
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Private and State Forestry. Nature 122, 231–232 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122231a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122231a0