The Women’s Forestry Corps was set up in 1916 and employed gangs of women to carry out forestry work to increase timber production.
These women later becoming part of the WLA. By January 1918, 400 women worked as foresters in the Women’s Land Army.

Source: Catherine Procter WLA Collection

Source: The Landswoman, February 1918, page 26.
Summary adapted by Stuart Antrobus from The Women’s Land Army: a Portrait (Gill Clarke)