466 Forestry Quarterly 



The work can only be increased when the funds are increased, 

 which is unlikely at present. The start already made, in addition 

 to breaking the ice for the British Isles, cannot help but be of 

 great effect in influencing the standard of forestry practised by 

 land owners and (by showing results) in leading to the further 

 state purchase of land for forest planting. The propaganda 

 work carried on in Great Britain has not been of the proper type. 

 The schemes proposed have been too sweeping and have frightened 

 governments, land owners and tax payers alike. The published 

 details, by being interwoven with plans for the utilization of the 

 unemployed and by providing for the planting of areas not likely 

 to produce timber at a profit, and by sweeping away grazing 

 rights and moor lands at a stroke have earned for forest planting 

 more opponents than friends. The industrial side of the question 

 does not appear to have been sufficiently treated. It has not been 

 made sufficiently clear, in a local manner, how the existence of 

 even small forest areas would benefit towns and industries. 

 Though the utilization of home resources is a burning topic in 

 Britain, but little has been said of the present wasted forest 

 opportunity, bound to continue so long as the planted and managed 

 forests of France supply pit props to the coal mines lying beneath 

 the denuded hills and valleys of Wales. 



