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"If burning the forest floor were allowed, erosion of soil would be certain." |
 An asinine policy?
27 January 1939
Mr D Ingle, a former Forestry Commission officer, writes in The Argus as follows: If burning the forest floor were allowed the soil would be bereft of all humus, the surface completely baked, all seedling growths destroyed … If the forest floors were kept clean by fires denudation must ensue, erosion of soil would be certain. [AYS, 27/1/39] Public Meeting [on
Sat 21/1] at Thornton
27 January 1939
[A meeting of about 80 farmers and graziers for two-and-a-half hours] ...the policy of the Forests Commission in leaving all the bark and debris about was wrong. Mr R O Sawers said he had held all the forests country for 30 to 40 years, and it was essential [AYS, 27/1/39] |
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