Bin Forest stock Map 1966
Map is courtesy of Moray and Aberdeenshire Forest District.
This appears to be one of the first resurveyed maps of part of the Bin Forest which includes the Forest areas of from the west:
Ardonald
Wood of Milleath
Dunbennan Wood
Bin
Garrowmuir Wood
Brownhill
Cumrie
The survey team have renumbered the compartments and written in each the tree species and planting year. The team will also have checked and, where necessary, resurveyed all the boundaries and certainly the forest roads most of which were constructed with the help of ex service people (Burma Roads) around 1949-52.
The oldest trees (P21-23) appear to be in Compartments 318-320 near Drumdelgie but not sure if this was FC planting or not. Most of the rest of planting appears to start around 1926 on the south and east sides of the main Bin Forest area some of which was burnt and replanted in 1945-46.
The name on the map cover (see PDF) is that of J Strachan most likely Jimmy or John Strachan long term FC employees at Bin Forest.
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Groups: Forestry Areas, Maps of Forest and Woodland Areas, Northeast Scotland