Hottentots Holland, Grabouw State Forest, Koeelberg, site 3418BB/11 ...

This is a scanned copy of a document on Hottentots Holland, Grabouw State Forest, Koeelberg, site 3418BB/11. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (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. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a l... Mehr ...