Chapter X. 



Natural Woods — Acres. 



Bh'cJi^ 14,021. 



Oak and Scrub, 3,391. 



Conifer Woods — Acres. 

 14,775- 



UTILISATION OF THE EXISTING WOODLAND PRO- 

 DUCE THROUGHOUT THE AREA DEALT WITH 

 UNDER THE AFFORE.STATION SCHEME. 



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The existing woodlands throughout the area under con- 

 sideration are as follows : — 



Dochfour 



Aldourie 



Glen Urquhart 



Foyers . 



Dell,Glendoe, Inchnacardoch 



Cullachy 



Invergarry . 



Invergloy 



Achnacarry . 



Glen Moriston . . -J 



In the disposal of part of the produce from the "natural 

 woods" of birch and stub-grown oak and ash, the remains of 

 coppices formerly worked in regular rotation, a market has been 

 gradually developed in recent years ; but this requires con- 

 siderable extension before all the existing mature and over-mature 

 wood can be utilised, in order to grow better crops of timber, 

 and chiefly of the conifers likely to be most profitable. When 

 this can be effected, it must necessarily mean a large additional 

 sum payable locally in wages in felling and preparing, and 

 in transport by road, railway, river and sea. But as regards 

 the existing conifer woods, as the market for their produce is 

 already fully established, there can be no immediate prospect 

 of any direct increase in the employment of local labour, 

 although in future the maturing woodlands should, under con- 

 tinuous good management, provide a much larger yield per 

 acre than is now the case. 



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