RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE 75 



instances. That this work has been carried on even 

 during the stress of the great war reflects the greatest 

 credit on all the parties concerned. It may be 

 expected to provide us with data which, now that 

 so large a number of these woods have been felled, 

 would have taken a long period of years to collect. 



A most important step during the war, taken with 

 a view to a thorough reorganization of the manage- 

 ment of the economic and industrial life of the 

 nation, and to bring the resources both of pure science 

 and applied science into a more intimate relation 

 with this life (and amongst the industries new ones, 

 we will hope, such as forestry), was the appointment 

 by the Government of the Reconstruction Committee. 

 Some of the best brains in the country are upon the 

 Committee, and the recommendations which it sees 

 fit to make, if given effect to, and it is not too much 

 perhaps to confidently anticipate that they will be, 

 should yield results of incalculable benefit to the 

 nation. 



The terms of reference to the Reconstruction 

 Committee so far as they apply to forestry are as 

 follows : 



" To report upon the best means of conserving 

 and developing the woodland and forestry resources 

 of the United Kingdom, having regard to the 

 experience gained during the war." 



