Restocking at Newcastleton Forest

Date Added: 27 February 2018 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1959 Picture No: 3953

Photograph is courtesy and copyright of Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Roslin, and provided with help from Glen Brearley. FR Photo number No B3862 taken by G G S.

An experiment (No 18 P58 Newcastleton) of cultivating a felled Sitka spruce site on 18 inches of peat with a tine plough.

Looks as though there was little or no cultivation and only a few stumps pulled out. Very few suitable spots for replanting on and the site is still waterlogged.

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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry Areas, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines

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