George Baur, a research forester of the New South Wales (NSW) Forestry Commission, was awarded the FAO Andre Meyer Fellowship in 1961-62 to travel to tropical countries and study the different silvicultural systems then in use. He wrote a large report (499 pages) and a shorter article, which was published in Unasylva 72 in 1964. The report was simply a typewritten version of 499 pages with simple binding, and was not widely distributed as one can imagine. David Lamb, of the University of Queensland, states that this report was “resurrected” putting it in digital form to make it more accessible. “Times have changed and nobody is going to necessarily re-introduce these silvicultural systems. But they could be of considerable interest to those trying to develop methods of dealing with heavily (badly?) logged over secondary rainforests because they provide an excellent survey of the literature of the time (much of it grey) when a lot of thought was being given to rainforest silviculture”.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Region
Global

Biome
Tropical

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All