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and localities must be equally vicious and more than this it must 

 infallibly result in its staves overlooking some important facts, and 

 indispensable conditions. Indeed it is this very danger of carry- 

 ing into effect preconceived opinions that justifies us in warning 

 the forester against seeking any perfect solution of the problem 

 before him, the realization of any impossible ideal, and in advising 

 him to confine himself to doing his beat to obtain the results 

 required and no more. If, imbued with this spirit, he knows the 

 forest he is dealing with, is careful to conform to the essential: 

 rules of forest management, and allows himself to be guided by the 

 true principles of silviculture, by endeavouring to obtain from well- 

 constituted crops and promising trees only such products as the 

 soil can yield, he will scarcely ever fail to draw up a good working 

 plan." 



The above masterly exposition of the guiding principles of 

 forest management, written by Charles Broillard in 1860, should be 

 remembered by every Working Plan Officer. It should be the 

 constant endeavour to base the management on true facts 

 apparent sooner or later to every forester, to prescribe only such 

 work as is possible and practicable, and to earn the goodwill 

 and co-operation of the executive staff. 



Forests may be divided into two broad classes : 

 (i) Forests managed for profit, 

 (ii) Forests managed as protection forests. 

 The fundamental principles of management in the first named Forests 



class of forests are managed 



tor profit* 



(1) The attainment and maintenance of the greatest sus- 



tained annual yield. 

 In order to do so two further principles are necessary 



(2) The attainment of the normal forest. 



(3) The establishment of regeneration to the normal extent. 



It is essential to the management of State forests that the The 

 forests should supply a steady annual income. It is the duty sustained. 

 of the State to produce in perpetuity the largest possible 



