© 1953 by Institute of Chartered Foresters
THE IMPROVEMENT OF WOODLANDS IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Forestry Commission
The history of the woodlands is outlined and a brief account given of their development up to 1945. The paper then describes how rehabilitation has proceeded since by co-operation between owners, foresters, and the Forestry Commission, and what modifications of silvicultural practice have been adopted to overtake the arrears of management resulting from depression before the Second World War and from extensive felling during the war itself.