Oak: fine timber in 100 years

Description

This translated book from the French embodies their very careful, considered and well recorded experiments over a period of thirty years seeking to shorten the rotation for fine oak from some 180 years to 100 years. The Institute for Forestry Development is to be congratulated.

The different requirements for penduculate and sessile oak are considered, along with implications for climate change, matters of regeneration, restocking, systems for weeding, management of the growing trees as individuals (Winnners, onto which the oak grower puts a heavy bet), how to measure crops and individual trees, the basis for valuation, timber quality and it’s potential faults are all here, well illustrated in a thoroughly practical manner to be of use both to the professional and to the interested amateur who face the challenge of growing fine trees for the production of fine timber.