Abstract
MR. TAYLOR has had a varied experience in the Forestry Commission since its inauguration in 1920, and is now one of the forestry commissioners. In his preface he says that the book is written in the hope that it will serve to meet the need for a short outline of forest history and forestry in Great Britain, and the bearing that the national forestry policy will have on the future welfare of the British people. In brief, the book is written for the public, and although some technicalities have been unavoidable, it has no pretension to be a text-book. The contents show the author's intention, dealing with Britain's woods and trees ; forestry in outline ; land for new forests ; forest making and forest mending ; forests and perpetual profit ; what forests produce ; war in the woods ; natural history of the woods ; perils, pests and fire ; forestry in the nation, and as a career ; and odoes a timber famine threaten?
Forests and Forestry in Great Britain
By William Ling Taylor. Pp. x + 172 + 21 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1945.) 12s. 6d. net.
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STEBBING, E. FORESTS AND FORESTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Nature 157, 144 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157144a0
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