Chapter XI. 



CONCLUSION. 



In submitting this Report to the Council of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society, the writers are well aware that individual 

 members of the Council will not be able to accept every 

 detail in a statement which deals almost exclusively witli the 

 special circumstances of the Glen Mor district. 



Minor points of "local variation," though interesting in them- 

 selves, do not affect the main issues under discussion ; 

 and if the writers may ask a single favour of their readers, it 

 is that criticism sliould be directed, not to detail, but to the 

 main principles involved in the scheme described in this Report. 



In framing their proposals, the writers have endeavoured to 

 show how a State-aided and State-controlled scheme of afforesta- 

 tion might be initiated on the line of least resistance, and how 

 the best results could be obtained from any given expenditure. 

 Their aim throughout has been to present a solution fair both 

 to the State and to all of those whose interests are touched by 

 afforestation ; and with this end in view, they have taken as 

 the determining factor in all matters of compensation or leasing, 

 the minimum which trustees would be justified in accepting in 

 the case of a property held on trust. They have, so far as 

 possible, avoided debatable points on which the attention of party 

 politicians is mainly focussed, believing that nothing could be 

 more fatal to the policy of afforestation than to allow it to 

 become, as it were, the private property of any one party in 

 the State. 



In concluding their Report, the writers wish to recapitulate 

 and emphasise certain convictions which have been formed in 

 their minds during the course of this incjuiry. 



1. The survey of Glen Mor tends to prove that there 

 exists in .Scotland a large extent of land admirably 

 fitted for afforestation. 



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