INTRODUCTION. 



This report is ft revision of the working- plan for the Jalpaiguri Forest 

 Division, sanctioned in the Government of Bengal's letter No. 4320, dated 

 5th December 1899, for ten years, with effect from the Forest year 1896-97, 

 which consequently expires at the end of the Forest year 1905-06. 



In the ordinary course the provisions of a revised plan would come into 

 effect from the Forest year 1906-07, but doubts having arisen as to the suita- 

 bility of the prescriptions of the plan under revision, the forests were visited by 

 the Inspector- General of Forests, and in a note, dated 7th February, 1904, 

 he advised that an alteration in treatment should be introduced without delay. 

 In anticipation of orders, Improvement fellings were substituted for Coppice 

 with Standards in the sal bearing areas in the season of 1903-04, though 

 the area worked over remained unchanged. In the following working 

 season, 1904-05, fuller effect was given to the Inspector-General of Forests' 

 recommendations. These alterations in treatment were sanctioned by the Local 

 Government in their letter No. 999, dated the 28th May 1904. Some delay 

 has occurred in the preparation of the revised plan owing to the writer having 

 only assumed charge of the Division in November 1903, and being required 

 to make a personal inspection of all portions of the area dealt with and to 

 collect the necessary information in order to draw up the revised plan. The 

 preliminary report on the working-plan was approved by the Inspector-General 

 of Forests in his letter No. 5 W. P., dated the 26th July 1 905, and the 

 Government of Bengal have sanctioned the proposals therein being given 

 effect to at once in their letter, No. 2950 T.R., dated the llth September 1905. 



The present plan should be read in conjunction with the original plan as 

 it has not been considered necessary to reproduce all the information given 

 therein. 



No special outlay has been incurred in the preparation of this plan, the 

 work having been done by the Divisional Forest Officer alone in addition 

 to his own duties. 



F. TBAFFOBD, 



Deputy Conservator of Forests, 

 Jalpaiguri Division. 



