

The 



eilvicul* 

 tural 

 system. 



50 PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



plans that a supposed normal forest and normal regeneration is 

 obtained under the system pf management. 



In continental forestry the principles of the normal forest and 



normal regeneration are axiomatic and are the ground work of all 



systems of management, the yield being entirely dependent on 



them. It is realized that if the normal forest is attained and 



normal regeneration secured the normal yield must, ipso facto, be 



obtained. In practice normal forests are the exception rather 



than the rule, even on the continent of Europe, nevertheless the 



aim of the management is to attain the normal forest within a 



reasonable time and with as little sacrifice as possible, and the 



yield is merely the quantity of produce available as a result of the 



efforts to attain this end 2J . The whole forest policy of the 



United Provinces is founded on the principle of the sustained 



annual yield for forests managed for the commercial production of 



timber. The best example of progress towards normality is the 



simple coppice of Grorakhpur. 



One more point has to be considered and that is the silvicul- 

 tural system adopted. This system must be suitable to the 

 silvicultural requirements of the species in its special environment 

 and these requirements vary greatly from one locality to another 

 even with the same species. A system applicable under one set of 

 local conditions would be quite unsuitable elsewhere. The 

 universal adoption of the selection system in India in the past 

 without considering the silvicultural requirements of the various 

 species has been attended with failure and the progress of the last 

 few years'in all branches of forest management has resulted from the 

 knowledge obtained of the silvicultural requirements of the various 

 species by a few workers who have set out to master this knowledge. 



Troup defines a silvicultural system as follows and no better 

 definition could be given : 



" A silvicultural system is a system of forest management 

 applied with due consideration for the silvicultural requirements 



1 ! European Siloicultural Syittms. TROUP. 



