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Forest establish 

 inent. 



Forest law. 



MANAGEMENT OF TEAK FORESTS. 



This shows a little wider 1-8-0 per cubic foot. It has 

 always appeared to me that if the Forest officer had an 

 efficient establishment, his duty was to carry h.s timber 

 the best market, for merchants dislike going into fever 

 forests, the risk is too great, consequently when they c 

 the revenue suffers. It is always easier for the ] 

 Department to undertake work in the forest than outs 

 always assuming that the establishment is a strong 

 I have no hesitation in saying that the revenue . 

 forests, viz., Wynaad, Anamallies, and Nellumbore migb 

 have been doubled if efficient establishments both 6 

 conservation and working of the forests had been kept 

 from the formation of the department. Uufortun 

 revenue was demanded at once, and the result was 

 conservancy had to be abandoned. In addition t 

 there was no Forest law, damage by cattle and fires 

 a bar to all improvements ; convictions could not be obta 

 some Collectors were in favor of conserving the f 

 strictly, others the reverse. A Forest officer had no soom 

 No Forest policy, established an understanding with the Collector and 

 things to work amicably than there came another Colic 

 who had quite different views and ideas, and evarytt 

 went to ruin. One Member of Council was in favo. 

 shutting up the Anamallies, another was not, and 

 matter went on until what ought to have been an admit 

 department storing up the sources of a large revenue 

 future years, became like a certain other department, n< 

 saving department but a spending one. 



As every forest is now to have a strong staff backed 

 up by a Forest law, there will be some chance of fore 

 in Madras, being placed in a safe position for the fut, 

 but five and twenty years have been lost, am 

 take very l,-avy efforts to recover only a port, 

 ground. 



It is satisfactory to know that one part of tlu- 1-Wst 

 ,,, , 1!ls ,,,,i beea.uffereatolangui8h,andtbati 8 

 plantingof Nellumbore. With over 3,000 acres plant* 



Forest staff. 



