British Forestry

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THE recommendations in the report which has just been issued by the committee appointed by the President of the Board of Agriculture “to inquire into and report upon British forestry” follow very much the trend of the opinions that have in recent years been expressed in NATURE and elsewhere. As was expected from the terms of the reference to the committee—“to consider whether any measures might with advantage be taken, either by the provision of further educational facilities or otherwise,” to improve and encourage the “position and prospects of forestry”—the report deals chiefly with the root-matter of the forestry question—education. To such an extent is this the case that other elements of the forestry problem in Britain, such as the incidence of rates, the taxes upon timber transport, inequality in the levying of estate duty and the game question, are treated as minor considerations.