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By M. MciNTYRE HOID
LONDON -« Five hundred for- ests throughout the U n i t e d " have been patrolled
in nightly for the last month by
men hoping to ambush the "tree-snatchers" — gangs of highly organized thieves wh o
steal young fir saplings to be sold as Christmas trees. These patrols are organized by the Forestry Commission. for which the cutting and selling of Chris- tmas trees is big business.
This ye a r. the Commission has cut and sold over 500.000 saplings for the Christmas mar- ket. It sells only trees or cut- tings taken in thinning-out work --hut the thieves plunder plan- tations indiscriminately. BIG-SCALE THEFTS
The tree-enatchcrs work in plantations which are conven- Iently located at the big cities. They use large trucks carrying five or six men. in a night’s work. they can steal 500 or more trees. to be sold openly on the wholesale. markets at prices ranging from $1 to $1.60 each.
A favorite haunt of the tree thieves is the New Forest, in Hampshire. where there are large plantations. This year the night patrols were stepped up. and some n! the patrols were equipped with walkie-talkie two- way radio sets. Trained dogs here also used to track down the raiders.
"He‘ll be a very clever thief who gets away with a tree. this rear". said Forestry Commis- sion executive officer Walter
'ason." $EI.L BIG TREES
The big Christams tree mand means a lot of extra work for the foresters.
"We specialize in selling trees 30 and 40 feet high to authorities or large firms all
lover the country. This has been
a good year for growth, and the trees were in excellent condi- n.
But the small family trees are as popular as ever. and hun- dreds of truck loads the New Forest during the past few weeks.
Last year. the Forestry Com- mission earned close to $300,000 from its sales of Christmas trees. But a few raids on one of its big estates" it owns 35,000 acres in the New Forest alone -can prove very expensive be- cause of the damage done by thieves in addition to the trees
olen.
Buckinghamshire. which has arge a r e a s of forest within easy reach of London. has been
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one of the happy - h u n n g grounds for tree thieves. Be- cause of the extra patrol pre» cautions taken. however, the .
raids have. been much less num- erous this year than in some of the past years."
A spokesman for the Bucle inghamshire police said:
“These men come from i.on~ don with their trucksw th ey call them lorrics in this mum try »— and can clear hundreds of
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