The woods, forests, turf-bogs, and foreshores of Ireland: opportunity for, and advisibility of, establishing government management and protection

Abstract

In the paper on "Forestry in Ireland," read by me before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, in July, 1889, I described at some length the forestry regulations of the principal European countries, and the measures taken to encourage and affect re-foresting. I would now shortly point out how the planting of trees may be protected and encouraged by government control. I would then show the advantages of forestry in Ireland from both an industrial and climatic point of view, and also as a means for the reclamation of waste lands, considering shortly some objections that may be made against proposals to re-forest the country.