FORESTRY IN SCOTLAND 17 



acres by the State, of which 6,000,000 were to be 

 planted in Scotland and the balance in England, Wales, 

 and Ireland. With the exception of Ireland nothing 

 was done. No planting was undertaken in Great 

 Britain. 



In 1911 a Departmental Committee on Forestry in 

 Scotland was appointed and issued its report in 1912. 

 In addition to recommendations on the subject of 

 forestry education and the acquisition of a Demon- 

 stration Forest Area, the question of afforestation in 

 Scotland was considered. Flying surveys of the 

 country were advocated in order to ascertain the avail- 

 able planting areas, the establishment of a limited 

 number of State trial forests, and the appointment of 

 an Advisory Forest Officer. The last recommendation 

 of the three has been given effect to. In 1912 a very 

 practical Report appeared entitled " A Forest Survey 

 of Glen Mor and a consideration of Certain Problems 

 arising therefrom." This Report was drawn up by 

 Lord Lovat and Colonel Stirling of Keir, late Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, and 

 was published under the auspices of that Society. 



The following extract from the Preface gives the 

 reasons aimed at in the preparation of this Report : 



" This survey is the first serious attempt to grapple 

 with the economic difficulties which confront affores- 

 tation in that part of Great Britain " (to wit, Scotland) 

 " where the largest extent of plantable land — that is 

 to say, land sufficiently good and sufficiently cheap — 

 is to be found. It would have been easy to select an 

 area where most of these difficulties would have been 

 avoided, and to create a forest under ideal sylvicultural 



