Catalogue description Forestry Commission: Alice Holt Research Station: Registered Files

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Reference: F 40
Title: Forestry Commission: Alice Holt Research Station: Registered Files
Description:

Files relating to the applied and pure research carried out by the Forestry Commission at the Alice Holt Research Station. The series includes some material from the prewar period, when research was carried out at Oxford and Edinburgh and on sample plots on Commission estates.
Date: 1920-1970
Arrangement:

Arranged in file number order.
Related material:

For papers relating to Alice Holt Forest, see F 4
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Forestry Commission, Alice Holt Lodge Research Station, 1946-
Physical description: 23 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The research station at Alice Holt Lodge, near Farnham in Surrey was opened in 1946. Alice Holt Lodge is now the main research station, but there is also a Northern Research Station at Roslin, near Edinburgh. The object of the work at the station is to advance forest technology and so improve the growth and quality of the forests and increase labour productivity in ways consistent with sound land management. It takes the form of applied research, covering all major practical aspects of forest crops, notably plant production, silvicultural research, tree improvement, crop protection. A limited amount of pure research is also carried out into soil physics, forest hydrology, genetics, physiology and the biology of pests and diseases.

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