The work at Inverliever differed from that at Loch Ossian in the respect that, whereas the latter was designed as an experiment in peat without any commercial objective, the former was laid out as the first large-scale planting on both good and poor land as if it were a commercial undertaking. Inverliever Forest is situated on the north side of Loch Awe in Argyllshire and was thought to be reasonably representative of large areas of plantable land in the west of Scotland. It was placed under charge of Roy Robinson, later chairman of the Forestry Commission, in 1912 and, together with the local forester, John Boyd, he started an experimental scheme that was meant as a model for large-scale afforestation of upland areas.