Slasher Magazine Summary: Publication No. 239 - November 1967
The digitisation of the Slasher was undertaken by, and images courtesy of, the Forest Research Knowledge and Information Management staff based at both the Northern Research Station in Roslin, Scotland and Alice Holt in Surrey, where the original copies are currently located.
The content summary below was very kindly compiled by Diane Birkett, Bedfordshire. See PDF attachment link below the text to view the full document. A total of over 400 issues were produced between 1948 and the final issue in 2010.
Increased Planting in Scotland
The current planting rate in Scotland of 30,000 acres per year, which is being increased to 36,000 acres per year from 1969, will rise to 50,000 acres per year by 1976.
Promotions
On promotion to Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Dr D.H. Phillips will carry out the duties of the Conservator post in the Research Division.
On promotion to Conservator, Mr G.D. Holmes will take up a new post in the Research Division at Edinburgh.
Mr N. Banister, SW (E), promoted to Assistant Conservator.
Mr R.E. Crowther, Dean, promoted to Assistant Conservator.
Mr R.M. Hewitt, HQ London, promoted to Assistant Conservator.
Mr D.Y.M. Robertson, HQ London, promoted to Assistant Conservator (P&E).
Mr K.P. Thallon, SE (E), promoted to Assistant Conservator.
Ninth Commonwealth Forestry Conference
Director General Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse, will be visiting New Delhi, India for the Ninth Commonwealth Forestry Conference as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Conference.
Also attending are Mr J.A. Dickson, Commissioner for Harvesting and Marketing, Mr S.A. Neustein, Research, Edinburgh, Miss M.J. Eden, Secretary of the Standing Committee and Mr J.A. Grayson, Economist.
In addition to the Commission officers, the Conference will be attended by Mr. T. A. Oxley, Director of Forest Products Research Laboratory; Professor Malcolm Laurie, Commonwealth Forestry Institute at Oxford and Mr. J. J. Lawrie, Secretary of the Commonwealth Forestry Association.
Retirements
Mr Alistair Cameron MBE, Head Forester, West Scotland Conservancy has retired.
Mr D.J. Mackay, Forester, West Scotland Conservancy has retired.
Mr O.C. Davies, Forest Worker, Dean has retired after 48 years in forestry.
Mr Frank Morse, Dean, has retired after 27 years on estate maintenance.
Mr Charlie Lewis, Dean, has retired after 23 years on estate maintenance
Presentations
Mr Alistair Cameron MBE, Head Forester, West Scotland Conservancy, retirement presentation at Callender.
Mr D.J. Mackay, Forester, West Scotland Conservancy, retirement presentation at Loch Gair Hotel, Argyll.
Mr O.C. Davies, Forest Worker, Dean, retirement presentation.
Golf Outing
South Scotland reports a golf outing to Moffat during atrocious weather. The Fotheringham Trophy was won by Mr A.A. Cowan (Dumfries office) on the strength of a better inward half score after a tie with Mr D.A.T. Douglas (P. and E., Edinburgh) and Mr F. McNicol (Wauchope Forest). Mr Douglas took the scratch prize.
Forest Names
More on the longest and shortest forest names. A reader has pointed out that South Yorkshire Forest, NE (E) and Eddleston Water, S (S) both have 14 letters, the same as Clashindarroch, the runner-up among the longest named forests. Elibank and Traquair, S (S) has 18 letters, thus easily beating Clatteringshaws, but only single names were being considered.
Other four letter names are Long, NW (E) and Lynn, E (E).
Mr W.A. Cadman reminds us of the three letter name New Forest.
Nearly all of the first of our forests in North Wales were named after the principal rivers.
Ffani Lloyd
Ffani Lloyd, a 35 year old horse who has worked in Dovey Forest, North Wales for 30 years is believed to be the oldest horse still working on the production programmes. She is owned by Mr Idwal Lewis, a skilled forest worker and a tenant of Llwydiarth Farm, Dovey since 1927.
Lighter Side of the Quiz
Forestry quizzes at major agricultural shows prove to be popular with hundreds of school children of all ages, striving hard to gain a Young Forester's badge. Mr N. Banister, who has been closely associated with such competitions at the Bath and West Show, provides some extracts on the lighter side of the quiz.
Help for Missing Flyer
Police in the West of Scotland were alerted when a small single engine plane on a flight from Iceland, failed to make a scheduled landing at Abbotsinch.
Mr Ian MacRae, Chief Forester at Glenbranter saw the plane make a forced landing in a nearby field. He ran into the field and met the pilot, Everett Hughes, who was in the course of making a solo flight across the Atlantic. He had left Austin, Texas a week previously and had stopped at Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. Short of fuel, he had to land in the field. Mr MacRae helped him to stock up with fuel obtained from a nearby garage, but the long grass prevented a take off, with the result that for an hour the two men were engaged in trampling the grass flat. At the second attempt, the plane soared off.
Key Ring Wanted?
Chief Forester Jack Jennings puts forward the idea of a key ring, which could hold the celluloid Yield Class tables used for determining the volume per acre in thinning operations.
New Booklets
The Commission has been involved in the preparation of three booklets that have been published recently.
Roads in the Landscape (Ministry of Transport, HMSO), written by Mr Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and founder member of the Committee on the landscaping of trunk roads which advises the Ministry. The Commission has a permanent representative on this Committee, originally Mr C.A.J. Barrington, Conservator, S.E. England, and now Mr P.F. Garthwaite. The Commission acts as agent to the Ministry, supplying trees and carrying out planting.
Trees for the Farmer (CPRE). Mr J.D. Leefe, District Officer, East England, is one of the editors. The Commission were represented as assessors on the working group which produced the booklet. Valuable suggestions were made by field staff before publication.
Predatory Mammals in Britain, Council for Nature, Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, London.