Practical Forestry: For the Agent and Surveyor

The definitive guide to forestry, and the main resource for forestry students. Cyril Hart’s seminal work on woodland management and practices is back in this definitive edition, which tackles such topics as financial management, taxation, the integration of forestry and agriculture, silvicultural operations, grading of timber, valuations, marketing, utilisation, non-wood benefits, saw-milling and nursery practice. Of long-standing use to all students of - and experts in - forestry, Practical Forestry is a must-have for anyone interested in working in, managing or preserving Britain’s lush and vital woodland areas. AUTHOR: The late Cyril Hart OBE was a forestry expert and became the longest serving senior verderer of Verderer’s Court of the Forest of Dean, from 1962 until his death in 2009. He was also a gifted historian and author, with Practical Forestry the definitive work on forestry. 42 colour, 209 b/w illustrations