PREFACE. 



book has been prepared with the object of placing on record 

 one place the details of forest management and workin- plan 

 ire as at present adopted in the United Provinces. It is written 

 Mined forest officers and does not pretend to be a text-book 

 tudent. Consequently it omits much matter which finds 

 m text-books on silviculture and forest management, it pre- 

 m the reader a knowledge of forestry in all its branches and 

 lamtance with the ordinary professional terms of the science. It 

 S almost entirely with the practical management of the sal, chir 

 d deodar, the three principal forest trees of Northern India, under 

 erent silvicultural systems applied to these species, and 

 ibes in such detail as is necessary for working plans the technique 

 treatment from infancy to maturity. Only the methods of 

 the yield which are actually used in practice have been 

 sscnbed and examples from working plans have been given in every 

 book is published under the authority of the Chief Con- 

 vator of Forests, United Provinces, and is intended as a handy 

 to executive and working plan officers in the ordinary course 

 sir daily work. Much of the material has of necessity been 

 Abstracted from various text-books and other sources, a list of which 

 riven and the writings of officers of the working plans circle 

 L published and unpublished, have been drawn on and separately 

 knowledged as far as possible. More especially is acknowledg- 

 ed due to Broillard's Cours d'Amenagement which has been 



ily consulted and abstracted from in writing this book. 

 The book does not pretend to be anything more than a useful 

 tion reviewing as a whole the forestry of the province 

 mg a guide to the best methods of up-to-date management and 



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