Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre Maps: Monitoring Plots, Somerset West, 3418BB, Hottentots Holland ...

This is a digitised map of monitoring plots, Somerset West, 3418BB, Hottentots Holland from the collection of Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre Maps. The scale is 1:50000. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Stu... Mehr ...