Abstract
ORIGINALLY an old Crown forest, and now-a-days the most extensive of these remnants of the old Royal forests, the New Forest, in Hampshire, comprises some 90,000 acres and is under the management of the Forestry Commissioners. The Forest comes under the designation of a true forest, though large areas consist of open heath-land subject to rights of grazing and so forth; these limit planting and other forestry operations which would constitute the area a commercial proposition. Perhaps no other area of the type has received so much attention from Parliament, and numerous Acts have been passed for the administration of the law relating to it. The Acts of 1877 and 1879 may be said practically to have settled the Government policy vis-a-vis the forest, which is now regarded as a national playground; the coming of the motor-car having enormously extended the area from which visitors now resort to the Forest. These factors are rendering its management, even from the sole point of view of maintaining its beauty for future generations, a delicate and difficult task.
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The New Forest. Nature 139, 597 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139597a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139597a0