A photographic print of Industry, Timber, Felling Trees

BUILDING UP OUR TIMBER STOCKS. MJH/HT During the two World Wars, our woodlands were seriously denuded of timber. Today, the Forestry Commission and private woodland owners are pressing ahead with the vital task of forming new forests and re-stocking the old. The year 1956 has marked a milestone in the history of the Forestry Commission, for it has seen the planting by the Commission of the one millionth acre of new woodland. Thus the area of woodland planted to date by the Commission is more than 1,500 square miles - an area larger than Kent, nearly twice the extent of Glamorgan ard nearly two-thirds of Perthshire. This million acres is made up of some 500 forests, which are well distributed over the length and breadth of Britain. In recent years, well over 100-million trees - including more than 10 million hardwoods - have been planted annually by the Commission and many of the forests are now producing timber in substantial quantities; in 1955, the total production amounted to 600,000 tons. Today there is hardly a county without a national forest and scenes such as these, in the Commission's Rendlesham Forest in East Anglia, are typical of what is to be seen in many other parts of the country. PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS: "Timber" and the fellers crouch as a pine comes crashing down in Rendlesham Forest; (Suffolk). FOX PHOTOS AUGUST 23RD. 1956 547150 Industry - Timber - Felling Trees