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its advocates, to bring forward their arguments, first, before 

 the local Inquiry Committee, and afterwards, before the Central 

 Forest Authority.^ 



SURVEY OF GLEN MOR. 



The Report here submitted presents the concrete example of 

 a single Highland district exactly as it would be dealt with' 

 in the General and the Detailed Surveys under a scheme of 

 afforestation. 



It reviews the district's interests, its population or lack 

 of population, its burdens, its systems of agriculture, and the 

 existing opportunities for employment of labour. 



It shows how, under a properly constituted Central Authority, 

 the plantable area could be afforested to the greatest economic 

 advantage; and the benefits which would arise from a continuous 

 scheme of management, and from operations conducted under 

 a thoroughly considered working-plan. It reviews the employ- 

 ment that could be given in the improvement and utilisation 

 of the existing woods, and in the creation and management of 

 new plantations, and it shows the various tenures under which 

 a permanent population could be fixed on the soil. 



After careful consideration, it has been decided to leave the 

 question of the ownership of the land outside the body of the 

 Report. Experience in other development schemes has shown 

 that this subject is so absorbing as to distract discussion from 

 the particular object on which it is wished to focus attention. 

 As regards the various forms of ownership of land with which 

 the Forest Authority would have to deal in any general 

 scheme of afforestation, the opinion of the writers will be 

 found in Appendix B. 



AREA SELECTED. 



Glen Mor, through which the Caledonian Canal runs, has 

 been selected for the first Survey for the following reasons : — 



(a) It has the general approval of the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, eighty of whose members visited it 

 in June 1910. 



1 For ihe question of appeal against the tlecisions of the Central Forest 

 Authority, vi'dt: Appendix C. 



