CHAPTEE V. 



THE ORGANISATION OF THE FOREST UNDER WORKING PLANS. 



THE maintenance of the external boundaries of the estate and Bound- 

 of the boundaries of such interior private lauds as have been ar " ie8> 

 excluded from the area of the legally notified reserved or protected 

 forest is one of the first duties of the executive officer in charge. 

 In order to insure that this important work be attended to, it 

 should be prescribed in working plans that a certain proportion of 

 the length of boundary or portion of the estate should be examined 

 annually by a responsible officer, and any defects which may be 

 brought to light rectified. During the course of the revision of the 

 working plan the officer in charge will have frequent opportunity 

 of examining the demarcation and it is part of his duty to see that 

 this is generally in order. Boundaries are demarcated in several 

 different standard ways, the outer line with ditch and stone mono- 

 liths is the general standard in the plains, while in the hills 

 natural features, such as ridges or nalas, are frequently adopted. 

 The boundary should be clear on the ground, the position of the 

 pillars on the ground and their numbers should correspond with 

 the map, and usually each pillar should be visible from the 

 next one. 



A forest block is either a natural division of a forest estate or slocks. 

 is part of a large tract of forest separated off, either for purposes of 

 the record of forest rights, when it is frequently designated a settle- 

 ment block, or for other administrative reasons. Forest block bear 

 a local proper name and may be of any size. Some forest divisions, 

 more especially in the hills, are divided into separate entities 

 known as blocks or forests, other divisions chiefly in Oudh are 

 merely divided into compartments. 



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