PREFACE 



THE object of the present manual is to present a brief and 

 simplified text-book on Forest Management, based on a purely 

 practical foundation. The standard works on this subject some- 

 times present for the student, and especially for the public 

 a rather formidable appearance, and contain an exposition of 

 high theory a part of which at the present time is seldom, if 

 ever, capable of practical application to the forest conditions of 

 our own country, or of our possessions in other parts of the 

 world. An attempt is made therefore to produce a simplified 

 practical review of this subject from which are eliminated all 

 reference to advanced theories which are not at present sus- 

 ceptible of practical application, and all other matters of purely 

 academic interest. Some confusion has resulted, it is thought, 

 in the past, from attempting to embrace in one study such 

 diverse conditions as obtain in the most intensively worked 

 continental forests which have been highly organised for genera- 

 tions, in the vast forests of India which are still generally in their 

 natural state of the utmost irregularity, and thirdly in the small 

 estate woodlands and plantations of our own country. An attempt 

 is therefore made now to discriminate between such different 

 types of forest with a view to elucidate and facilitate the pre- 

 paration of suitable working-plans for each type. 



Use has been made of the following standard works on Forest 

 Management: Manual of Forestry, vol. in. Sir Wm. Schlich; 

 The Forester, J. Nisbet; The Practice of Forestry, P. T. Maw; 

 British Estate Forestry, A. C. Forbes; Forest Working Plans in 

 India, W. E. D'Arcy. 



H. JACKSON. 



Jan. 1921 



