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the woodlands exploited during the 

 War. This programme envisages the 

 aflorestment of 125,000 acres altogether 

 --no very vast encroachment upon the 

 twelve and a half million acres of moor 

 and waste and deer ground from which 

 the land will he resumed. 



At the outhreak of War not less than 

 nine-tenths of the timher consumed in 

 Scotland came from abroad. The Board 

 of Trade Returns for 1913 gave 1,470,- 

 000 tons as the quantity of timber im- 

 ported into Scotland. The total con- 

 sumption of timber in that year is be- 

 lieved to have been about 1,623,000 tons, 

 leaving as the balance provided by home 

 w*.ods only 153,000 tons or roughly one- 

 ninth. More than one-half of the im- 

 ports consisted of pitwood. As the re- 

 sult of the War and of the consequent 

 compulsion to find our timber require- 

 ments at home the position has been com- 

 pletely reversed, and in this year nine- 

 tenths of our requirements are supplied 

 from home forests and one-tenth from 

 abroad. The development of the home 

 timber industry during the last five years 

 has been enormous, but this develop- 

 ment has been at the expense of the small 

 reserve of old woods, and it is feared 

 that large inroads have been and will 

 continue to be made as well into the 

 younger plantations. If the timber in- 



(liK^try is maintained, and there is rea- 

 son to expect that it will be for several 

 years, a further serious depletion of the 

 timber resources must result, but the 

 industry is important and one well worth 

 retaining in as full activity as the exist- 

 ing resources will allow. About 100,000 

 people were engaged in it in 1911, and as 

 the fruits of aiTorestation accrue the ex- 

 pansion of timber work will increase. 



The Timber Supply Department creat- 

 ed during the War made a calculation 

 of the fellings from 1914 to 1919 inclu- 

 sive, and these totalled 170,233 acres, 

 but it would not be unreasonable to place 

 the actual inroad upon the woods to date 

 at something like 200,000 acres, which 

 would leave 652,120 acres as the area 

 of woods remaining in situ at the pre- 

 sent day. Of this area probably 25 per 

 cent, or 163,000 acres will consist of cop- 

 pice, the greater part of which is present- 

 ly of but small marketable use, so that 

 tl"e real reserve of standing timber in 

 Scotland at the birth of the Forestry 

 Commission may be roughly computed 

 at half-a-million acres or 2.6 per cent, 

 of the whole extent of the country. The 

 above estimate of reserves will ultimately 

 be checked by accurate methods when 

 particulars of all woodlands are proper- 

 ly investigated by the Forestry Commis- 

 sion. 



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