APPENDIX B. 



Tenure of Land under Afforestation - 

 Five Different Systems. 



The writers offer a very brief exposition of five different systems 

 of tenure applicable to afforestation under the Central Forest 

 Authority. 



I. — Purchase or feu of land by the State, and afforestation l>v 

 the Forest Authority. This method has the advantage of 

 ensuring continuous management, the avoidance of dual 

 control, and, probably, the elimination of secondary 

 interests. It would also, where land could be acquired 

 at reasonable rates, secure to the State the whole of the 

 return from the area planted. It has three main 

 disadvantages : 



{a) Voluntary purchase will not secure the acquisition 

 of the plantable areas only, for no landowner will 

 voluntarily part with his wintering and keep the 

 high ground. Therefore, unless the State applies 

 compulsion to force the landowner to sell what is 

 of value and to keep what is of little or no value, 

 whole deer forests or sheep farms must be pur- 

 chased, with the result that the State will have to 

 administer the whole of the unplantable portions. 



{b) In most cases, only the smaller part of the area 

 purchased would grcv trees ; that is to say, that 

 only a small proportion of the money provided 

 by the State would go into forestry proper. 



(c) Experience in the Highlands shows that the State, 

 as landowner, is confronted with difficulties and 

 expenses which are even greater than those which 

 affect private owners. 

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