Does our forest policy need an overhaul?

Abstract

The Food and Agricultural Organisation of U.N.O. is devoting a major part of its efforts to the shaping of a world forest policy. It has created a Division of Forestry and appointed a Director and staff to organise the collection and dissemination of information on forestry. In its reports and in its new magazine Unasylva the need for a vigorous effort for the creation of a world forest consciousness is stressed. In view of these trends in forestry a discussion, of forest policy generally, and of Irish forest policy in particular, in our Journal should not be considered inopportune or out of place...