and is 102 feet tall. Not far from it grows an 
ancient oak, a representative of “Birnam 
Wood,” that easily runs back over 500 years. 
And these are but instances. 
If we in the United States had equally as 
good information about even the most valuable 
of our trees as the English and Scottish forest- 
ers have about their relatively few species, one 
phase of our problem of a national timberland 
THE BRITISH NATIONAL 
FOREST POLICY 
The ultimate object of the British National 
Forest Policy is, as has been stated, “the crea- 
tion in Great Britain and Ireland of reserves 
of standing timber sufficient to meet the es- 
sential requirements of the nation over a 
limited period of three years in time of war or 
SAMPLE PLOT, 
LAKE VYRNWY, 
WALES. NOTE 
NUMBERS ON 
TREES. PUR- 
POSE: TO 
STUDY GROWTH 
AND YIELD : 
A VIEW 
SHOWING 
FOREST 
NURSERY IN 
TINTERN 
WwooDS— 
INDICATING 
THE EXTENT 
OF THE 
NURSERY 
policy would be greatly simplified, although 
each nation has to work out and develop its 
own methods in forestry as in other things. 
But to recapitulate my third point, I believe 
that what has been done on the private estates 
in the United Kingdom is significant and that 
we Americans can profit in a number of ways 
from an acquaintance with what has there 
been accomplished. 
national emergency. The immediate objective 
is a ten year scheme based on a block grant,” 
The Acland Committee decided, after an ex- 
haustive examination, “that it would be. nec- 
essary for the state to afforest 1,770,000 acres 
of land previously unplanted (of which 1,180,- 
000 acres should be planted in 40 years, and 
the whole in 80 years); and, at the same time, 
to take steps to secure the continuance under 
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