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Forest recession

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1961-06
Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa , Tree ferns -- South Africa -- Photographs , Aloe arborescens -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65527 , vital:28806
Description: Caption "TW 10. Tree ferns (left) with Aloe arborescens in back to left, and natural forest at back. Ferns and aloes side by side where forest ought to be! June 1961.”
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Date Issued: 1961-06

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Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959
Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65750 , vital:28834
Description: Caption "TW 2. Black Ironwood, left foreground left standing by receding forest at Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. 1959.”
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Date Issued: 1959

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Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959
Subjects: Isidenge, King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60438 , vital:27780 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "Old steam engine at Isidenge, King Williams Town. Such are still used by sawyers in the area beacause they can be fired by sawdust and cut-offs from the sawn timber. Gordon Ranger standing beside. 1959."
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Date Issued: 1959

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Preserving trees

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959-05-19
Subjects: Forest degradation -- South Africa -- East London , Deforestation -- South Africa -- East London , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fort Grey forest -- South Africa -- East London
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60387 , vital:27775 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Article written by C. J. Skead to the East London Daily Dispatch (dated 19 May 1959), bringing attention to the deforestation of the Fort Grey forest by Mr C Miles Warren (MP). The article is acompanied by a harndwitten note stating "Mr C Miles Warren, M.P. had the contract for removing the forest and did very well out of it, especially with box-wood!! Hence the letter which would have [illegible] his consumers".
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Date Issued: 1959-05-19

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End of trees

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962-10
Subjects: Beford (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60400 , vital:27776 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "TW 14. Log washed down the Great Fish river jammes against the pillars near Eastpost station, Bedford. Oct. 1962. Tree looked like a Weeping Willow."
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Date Issued: 1962-10

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Bush recession

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962-10
Subjects: Middeldrift, King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60425 , vital:27779 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "Badly overgrazed veld in Bantu territory at Middeldrift, King Wms Town [King William's Town] . Oct 1962. Note how odd trees have been left in what must once have been a well-wooded valley."
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Date Issued: 1962-10

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Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959
Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65639 , vital:28822
Description: Caption "TW 1. Receding forest in the Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie with a stump of a once tall tree. It showed signs of charring from fire. 1959"
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Date Issued: 1959

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Old saw-pit, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959
Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60448 , vital:27781 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "Old saw-pit in receding forest, Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim. One figure in the pit, one on edge. Bole of latifolius yellow-wood at the edge. 1959."
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Date Issued: 1959

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Forest recession

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1958-08
Subjects: East London (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- East London (South Africa) , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60374 , vital:27774 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Original hand-written caption "This is the only forest in the world where the species of tree known as Mtisa [Umtisa] grows. A prominent member of parliament secured the contract for removing and selling sneezewood and birchwood trees”.
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Date Issued: 1958-08

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Forest recession

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1958-08
Subjects: East London (South Africa) -- Photographs , Deforestation -- East London (South Africa) , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60314 , vital:27765 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Original hand-written caption "Sheer vandalism at East London. The road through the beautiful Fort Grey Forest Reserve, Buffalo Pan at east London. Only a strip of 50 yards wide has been left at the right. All the beautiful forest has been removed to make way for a pineapple research station. This is a public scandal”.
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Date Issued: 1958-08

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Forest recession - Crapkloof, King William's Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962
Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- King William's Town, South Africa , King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65510 , vital:28804
Description: Caption "TW 11. Desecration by the GPO. A kloof remorselessly hacked for a new telephone line 1 mile s. Kei Road, K.W.T. This is the famous Crapkloof of immortal memory. 1962.”
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Date Issued: 1962

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Grossly overgrazed veld near Middeldrift

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962-10
Subjects: King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Environmental degradation -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60520 , vital:27789 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "Grossly overgrazed Bantu veld near Middledrift, K.W. Town. Oct. 1962. Note remnants of a few trees..."
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Date Issued: 1962-10

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The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King William's Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1962-06
Subjects: King William's Town (South Africa) -- Photographs , Vandalism -- South Africa -- King William's Town , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: picture , still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60510 , vital:27788 , This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
Description: Caption "A beautiful Hyphene palm felled to make way for a man-made religious sanctuary. Sheer desecration. Garden of Sacred Heart Church, King Wms. Town [King William's Town]. June 1962. R.C. of course."
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Date Issued: 1962-06

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Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
Date: 1959
Subjects: Nqantosi area, Upper Kubusie, Stutterheim (South Africa) -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Stutterheim -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65649 , vital:28823
Description: Caption "TW 1. Patch of isolated forest, Upper Kubusie. The lone Yellowwoods have been left standing by the receding forest 1959"
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Date Issued: 1959

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