Planting programme change for Culbin Forest 1946 onwards
This was part of an archived file recovered from old shed store at Newton by Malcolm Hobson and Ruaridh Maxwell of Forestry and Land Scotland.
The memo possibly written by Frank Oliver as East Scotland Conservator based in Aberdeen to the Director for Scotland in Edinburgh, Henry Beresford-Peirce, with copies to possibly A E Stewart forester in Culbin but these names are not certain as being in post this early in 1946.
There is a description of pre-war annual programme of 25 acres of thatching the sand and planting but that in 1946 there was still 1500 acres of sand dunes to deal with. They had 34 workers with potential to get more. The suggested new programme is put forward as 120 acres per year but that they would require three lorries or tractors combination and a number of trailers. The request for these is put to the Directorate in Edinburgh.
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