No .1931, dated Nagpur, the ijth August 1901. 



From ]. A. McKEE, Esq., Conservator of Forests, Southern Circle, Central Provinces, 

 To The Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. 



With reference to your No. 53- W. P., dated 1st May 1901, returning the Working Plan 

 for the Ambara Range in the Chhindwara District, 1 have the honour to forward the 

 following explanations regarding the various points noticed by you. 



2. Working Circle No. I includes 3 working-circles of the old plan, and each of these 

 has been treated as a felling series at the suggestion of Mr. Heade, late Officiating Conser- 

 vator of this Circle. This was done in order to reduce the number of working-circles, and 

 to provide produce for purchasers at convenient points over rather a scattered area, and I see 

 no objection to the proposal, 



3. Paragraph 26 is not well worded. The Mandwi Block contains 2 coupes to be felled 

 in 1902-03 and 1903-04, respectively, and the Piparpani Block, 3 coupes to be felled in 

 1918-19, 1919-20, and 1920-21, respectively. Hence working-circle II has 5 coupes. 

 This should have been made clear; but it can be gathered from a perusal of the tabular state- 

 ment of fellings in paragraph 38. 



4. In paragraph 32 it is intended to say, that should there not be a sufficient quantity 

 of 1 8" poles at the end of 20 years, as the result of coppicing, for the supply of the market, 

 the balance required can be obtained from the standards which were left at the beginning of 

 the rotation. There was evidently an idea on the part of the framers of this Working 

 Plan that a 20 years' rotation might not be sufficiently long to produce enough 18" poles. 



5. The first sentence of paragraph 34 may be struck out. 



6. With regard to paragraph 36 (c), the Forest Divisional Officer reports that this 

 was inserted for the guidance of the officials who will have to carry out the fellings, as they 

 are all untrained men; but the words " 60 per cent. " should be " 60 per acre." Were there 

 a good demand for the produce, the operation would be coppice with standards ; but, like 

 other Working Plans in these Provinces, for areas in which the demand for green fuel is very 

 small, the operation is termed an improvement felling. This, in several instances which have 

 come under my knowledge, I am convinced it is not. 



7. Paragraph 39 may be omitted. 



8. The typographical errors in paragraphs 41 and 42 have been corrected. 



9. I now re-submit, with the above remarks, two corrected plans, and should you, after 

 further consideration, not be disposed to forward it to the Local Government, I would 

 recommend either that the present plan be re-printed, or that Mr. McCrie, who is now 

 Divisional Officer in charge of Chhindwara, be asked to draw up a new plan. 



Secretariat Press, Nagpur : ]. E. A., 6-1-190875. 



