Forestry Memories

Clashindarroch Forest History 1930 -1952  Part 1

Clashindarroch Forest History 1930 -1952 Part 1

Date Added: 16 January 2008 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1952 Picture No: 291

I have loaded a large 40 plus page report under the PDF button. This is a long and convoluted story about the early days of species selection and ground treatment processes to establish a forest on what was thought to be difficult conditions in the 20 thousand acre Clashindarroch estate. The real problems they faced, the lack of machinery to cultivate and with no experience to fall back on the foresters had a real battle on their hands to carve out success and overcome the terrible failures that devastated some of their work. The existing high quality, very productive and attractive forest is a real testament to their hard work, tenacity and foresight.

The appendices and some more data is in Part 2 under Picture No 292 entry.

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Groups: Forestry Areas, Forestry Records, Booklets and Reports, Northeast Scotland

2 Comments

My great uncle Bill McInnes was a chillier at the estate. I am looking for more information on him Comment left on 23 May 2021 at 17:14 by Karina Willats
Hi Karina I knew Bill all my life, give me an email and i will try and help you out. Comment left on 05 August 2021 at 15:10 by Steve mcconachie
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