Ill 



THE REVIVAL OF FORESTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 



A FAINT stir of unrest, a suspicion that all was not 

 well with the country's position in the matter of 

 forestry, began to make itself felt in the early eighties, 

 and this leads us to the third period into which I 

 have divided this brief historical survey. 



3. FROM THE APPOINTMENT OF THE PARLIAMENTARY 

 COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY IN 1885 TO THE OUT- 

 BREAK OF THE GREAT WAR IN 1914. 



This third period is perhaps the most interesting 

 in our forestry history, for it throws a strong light 

 upon many factors in the pre-war organization of 

 our national life, parliamentary, social, and economic. 

 It also brings into strong relief the depths to which 

 forestry in Britain had sunk, and proves incontest- 

 ably the ignorance existing in the country on all 

 pertaining to present-day woodcraft, in so far as 

 the object of that craft is to furnish materials of 

 indispensable value to modern industries dependent 

 upon it. 



The unrest which came to a head in the middle 

 eighties was met by the Government of that day 



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