Culbin Forest Binsness pine thinnings for pit wood
Photograph courtesy of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District with particular help from Lesley Hutcheson who collected a series of general photographs found in the Newton Office and filed them.
Photo by B R Feaver but no other information apart from year and location and the fact that the trees growing in the middle behind the piles of timber are natural regenerated Scots pine. Following the end of the war the Forestry Commission staff must have regained access from the military to the eastern end of Culbin which had the high dunes and was a live munitions training area.
The Head Forester at the time is recorded as WR Campbell and he could be one of the two men featured looking over the forest map.
It is highly likely that this harvesting site would have been the source of some of the material used for thatching the sand dunes that year. Some tyre tracks are just visible and appear to be of the heavy military type vehicle and may have been used transport the thatching material.
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