North Scotland Conservancy senior staff at Strome
Photograph courtesy of David Paterson, Edinburgh.
David’s photograph shows senior North Scotland Conservancy staff at a demonstration (thought to be in Strome Forest circa 1962) of the newly introduced and modified Isachsen Winch by the Work Study team led by Stan Forrester (DO1).
Note: DO refers to grade District Officer who, when in the field, managed a district containing several forests each of which had a head forester in charge and later some chief foresters in charge following forest amalgamations. There were two grades of DO ie 1 and 2 the latter mainly being assistants. (Forest Officer (FO) grades were created after 1983 following amalgamation of Forester and District Officer grades with District Forest Officer (DFO) being the head of a District and Forest Officers 2, 3 and 4 lower down the grades).
The people can be seen more clearly in the large image but the numbers refer to the following names:
1. Ron Marnie (DO Fort William)
2. Jock Chrystall (Divisional Officer - South) with walking stick
3. Jimmy Denholm (Forester – South Strome)
4. John A Dickson (Conservator North Scotland)with walking stick
5. Stan Forrester ( DO Work Study branch)
6. David Paterson (DO Mid Ross District –Dingwall)
7. Jack Massey (DO Affric to Glen Urquhart District – Cannich)
8. George Taylor (DO Wester Ross to Skye District – Dingwall)
9. Alan Ray (hidden at back – Assist DO Fort Augustus)
10. John Drummond (DO Fort Augustus)
11. Finlay Macrae (DO Fort William)
12. Callum Nicolson (Admin and Finance Officer, North Scotland)
13. John Ogilvie (DO East Inverness District – Culloden)
14. Sandy Morrison (Acquisition Officer, North Scotland)
15. Alan F Mackay (DO Easter Ross/Black Isle District)
16. Joe Huntly (hidden at back Assist DO Dornoch District)
17. Ian A D Grant (DO Dornoch District – Dornoch)
18. Bob Innes (Divisional Officer – North)
David adds a footnote:
Duncan Macleod is not in the photograph but possibly was DO on Private Woodlands based at Inverness.
In the whole of Scotland at this time there were 59 District Officers (35 at Grade 1 and 24 at grade 2) nearly all within 5-7 years of an age gap.
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