. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 38 Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1915. Pine Trees tapped for Resin near Bordeaux. France. forestation was 1,600 and is now 14,000, and considerable areas have been brought under cultivation owing to the improved conditions resulting from the fixing of the sand dunes. It is no wonder that a mar- ble monument as well as a bust in bronze have been erected in the district to M. Bremontier, who initiated this work. Forestry in Scotland. In the earlier history of Scotland it is probable that the greater part of the High- la
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 38 Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1915. Pine Trees tapped for Resin near Bordeaux. France. forestation was 1,600 and is now 14,000, and considerable areas have been brought under cultivation owing to the improved conditions resulting from the fixing of the sand dunes. It is no wonder that a mar- ble monument as well as a bust in bronze have been erected in the district to M. Bremontier, who initiated this work. Forestry in Scotland. In the earlier history of Scotland it is probable that the greater part of the High- lands was covered with a tree growth known as the Grampian forest, and that the forest was destroyed over most of the Highlands by fire which may have been set in the later days for the purpose of clearing out some of the turbulent clans from the glens and thus enforcing a paci- fication which otherwise seemed impos- sible. As a matter of fact at the present time a very large proportion of the High- lands consists of heath-clad hills, with a very little of natural forest on the estates of some of the more prosperous land own- ers. In the days of the Highland clear- ances the glens were emptied of men in many places to make way for sheep and the grazing of sheep in the Highlands has been recently its most important industry. A careful study of the whole question of the relative value of grazing and forestry in the Highlands has been made in recent years and the deliberate conclusion has been reached that with land which will not rent for more than one shilling an acre for grazing sheep, or even up to three shillings, it is certainly much more profit- able to put the land into forest, and those of the private owners who are in a position financially to do so are planting trees and turning such lands into forests as rapidly as they can overtake the work. A large part of Scotland is so situated <that the grazing is really not of great value as it is reckoned in the Old Country whe
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