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88 T. CLEAR many years. One could only agree with Forbes and Anderson in those days that one had to go cannily with new exotic conifers like Sitka spruce and Douglas fir. FORBES' CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTRY EDUCATION It is not my intention to get side-tracked into an account of the development of professional forestry education. At the time we started the course, the association between the Department of Agriculture then responsible for State forestry and the new Faculty of Agriculture of the National University was very close indeed. A chance brought Forbes into the picture from the very beginning of our course. He was available to take full charge of our training from 1932 onwards and as a result we had the benefit of his considerable wealth of experience of forest management and his wide ranging involvement in forestry generally. Through Forbes we got an early introduction to the top field men of the day - Barry, Swords, Donovan, O'Beirne and McCaw - men who were the real pioneers of Irish forestry. There was, in those early years, a lot of doing and also a little studying. While forestry lacked the back-up of organised research it had the benefit of direct results on the ground in an array of pilot plantations about which people could talk from first hand knowledge. In retrospect one has to comment that the impact that research has had on the current basis of Irish silviculture has been nothing short of miraculous. In this context I recall an episode which has a bearing on the way the first fruits of research began to find application in the field. In 1933 in Ballyward property in west Wicklow, Dr. M. L. Anderson who had recently come into the service from the Research Branch of the British Forestry Commission, gave a demonstration to our gang of a new turf planting technique. That particular episode made a vivid impression and I have remained convinced that field demonstrations of new developments are of major value in getting research information across to field personnel. Forbes was very conscious of the need for students to see and participate in forestry activities in areas and countries where advances were being made. He arranged for us to spend four months in Sweden where we were involved in field work in surveying, and inventory of growing stock as part of the 1st National Forest Inventory. This inventory became a blue-print for similar large scale inventories throughout the world. While it was difficult for us to foresee the application of systematic plot sampling and stand mapping in Ireland on this scale at that time it was a very valuable experience. Sweden was also pioneering in those days in peat drainage and the development of roading systems. Subsequent developments in Ireland were to highlight the value of those
FORESTRY - A PERSONAL VIEW 89 experiences, the value of which could scarcely heve been visualised by those involved purely in domestic forestry at the time. OTTO REINHARD Since this is a personal view I feel I must mention Otto Reinhard (Fig. 1). He was responsible for my period of study in Germany in 1936/7. His coming to Ireland, as some will still remember, was associated with the transfer of the Forestry Division to the newly created Department of Lands. The new Minister was assigned the task of rapidly increasing the planting rate from what was considered a more than adequate 3,000 acres a year programme in 1933, to 6,000 acres per year by 1935/36 and to continue to expand the rate thereafter. The stated intention was to extend as much as possible the afforestation to Western peat and to relieve the dire poverty in rural Ireland generally. Fig. 1 - A. C. Forbes (left), first director of forestry in conversation with Otto Reinhard, director 1935/39. (Photograph: T. Clear)
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