86. 



CHAPTER IV. SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS. 



ARTICLE 1. Gleanings, Thinnings or other Improvement Fellings. 

 Owing to the unfavourable conditions for forest vegetation which prevail in this 



Division, trees shortly after reaching maturity are suddenly seen to become stag-headed and 

 then die. Hence, even with the most careful selection of standards, many of the latter can 

 scarcely be expected to survive through a second complete rotation in the Regular series. The 

 more valuable of such trees will be extracted either departinentally or by sale standing to 

 special purchasers, the rest will be cleared with other dead and fallen material upon the 

 removal of which there will be no restrictions, such as would be necessary if wood of this class 

 fetched high prices in these forests and thus offered an inducement to thieves. 



87. Climbers will always be cut wherever they are seen doing damage, and this will con- 

 stitute a part of the regular duties of Forest Guards, who will each be supplied with a light 

 axe which he must always carry about with him when out on his rounds. 



ARTICLE 2. Regulation of Grazing. 



88. The old reserves which have been closed to grazing for several years, all of which 

 may be expected to yield valuable large timber and the closure of which on account of the 

 small area concerned will be no hardship to local villagers, will continue to be strictly closed. 

 These are as follows : 



89. In addition to the above, the following will also be closed: :i) All areas in the 

 Regular series for ten years from the date of being felled over (as the demand is in few places 

 equal to anything like what may be cut out from a sylvicultural point of view, the Conservator 

 will decide when an area has been sufficiently felled over to require being closed) ; (ii) all areas 

 which have come under improvement fellings since 1897, and (iii) any areas of limited extent 

 which, being exceptionally well stocked with valuable trees, may, with the sanction of the 

 Chief Commissioner, be considered to require being closed for reproductive purposes. 



90. Even when the above scheme is in full operation, the areas open to cattle in the several 

 ranges will never be less than those given in the statement below, an inspection of which will 

 show that the provision for grazing is ample, never less than an area of 453,535 acres out of 

 the total area of 506,271 acres comprising the forest of the Division : 



