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 PART II. 



FUTURE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSED AND PRESCRIBED. 



CHAPTER I BASIS OF PROPOSALS. 



ARTICLE 1. Working Circles how composed; Reasons for their Formation. 



61. From a sylvicultural point of view a single working circle would suffice, but it 

 is convenient for administrative reasons to make four working circles co-extensive with 

 the four existing ranges. In each circle fellings will be made at as many points as the 

 demand and the convenience of the people will require thus fixing the number of the felling 

 series. 



ARTICLE 2. Compartments ; Justification of the Sub-division adopted. 



62. Previous to the preparation of this plan, there were no compartments and none 

 were necessary ; those to be now adopted are the coupes prescribed in paras. 84 and 85 below, 

 representing, as they do, the real working units. 



ARTICLE 3. Analysis of the Crop; Method of Valuation employed. 



63. In view of the small value of the crop and the simple character of the treatment 

 required, no valuation has been made, nor has any analysis of the crop been necessary beyond 

 a general examination thereof. 



CHAPTER II. METHOD OF TREATMENT. 



64. This Chapter deals only with the exploitation of major produce (excluding bamboos), 

 except in so far as such exploitation goes hand in hand with that of minor produce. 



ARTICLE 1. Objects sought to be attained. 



65. Speaking generally, the object aimed at may be briefly defined to be the satisfac- 

 tion of all present and prospective local requirements, while improving the stock to the 

 fullest extent permitted by the limited means at our disposal, so as to create a surplus of 

 valuable timber and other products (principally lac) for export to more distant and larger 

 markets. The working of the forests should also be so regulated that no one may have 

 to go further than 4 miles for his wood and grass and no village requiring grazing to 

 drive its cattle out beyond that distance. 



ARTICLE 2. Method of Treatment adopted. 



66. The nature of the soil and climate entirely forbids any hope of producing large 

 timber, save as scattered individuals in a few exceptionally favourable localities, while at the 

 rate at which natural reproduction by seed takes place, even a century would be too short 

 for the production of a complete seedling crop. Reproduction by coppice must hence 

 always be our stand-by, supplemented by the accession of a few self-sown seedlings that 

 may come up and survive here and there. Hence, wherever there is a sale for all the 

 firewood and small timber that can be cut, the system of coppice with standards will be 

 adopted in its entirety ; on the other hand, where the demand is practically limited to timber 

 of sufficient size and value to bear carriage to places not endowed with forests and where 

 wood is consequently dear, the system will be reduced to a species of coppice-jardinage, 

 in which coppice far more than seedlings will be depended upon for the regeneration of 

 the op. 



67. When, however, we come to areas (a very large aggregate portion of the Division), 

 in which, owing to their remoteness from populous centres, the annual demand for wood 

 is limited to the few head or cart-loads of firewood and the few poles of inferior species 

 which mat/ be required by the aboriginal inhabitants of jungle villages possessing a large forest 

 area of their own and which are at present, and will likely for a long series of years to come 

 (some of them even perhaps permanently) be utilised principally as grazing grounds, even the 

 slight amount of regular felling described above is, for the present at least, out of the 

 question and the treatment resolves itself merely into the unqualified reservation of the 

 valuable timber species, of tree suitable for the production of lac and of fruit trees in a 

 bearing condition or giving promise of fruiting well on reaching the age of fertility. 



68. Thus it wiD be seen that wherever any systematic treatment is possible, it will 

 be the coppice treatment that must be followed. 



ARTICLE 3. The Exploitable Age. 



69. Under the circumstances explained above, there can, strictly speaking, be here no 

 exploitable age, for the trees will be felled at various ages corresponding to one rotation or 

 some multiple of a rotation. We are hence concerned only with the term rotation, meaning 

 thereby the interval of years after which fellings come back to one and the same coupe. 



