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PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



Sowing, 

 planting, 

 and 

 tending. 



no stock map will be prepared before working, but a rough map on 

 the scale one square inch=l acre will be filled in with details as 

 to working, stocking, and yield as the work proceeds and from this 

 a stock map will be prepared afterwards on the scale 4?=l mile. 



" For all sal and koJcat clearfelling coupes the Divisional Forest 

 Officer, after comparing the marking officer's stock map with the 

 forest will prepare a statement showing (1) details of trees 

 marked and estimate of timber and fuel saleable ; (2) areas to be 

 restocked with each species or mixture of species, and whether by 

 means of cultivation or otherwise ; (3) amount of seed of each 

 species required, dates for collecting the seed, and area of nursery 

 and lining out beds required ; (4) estimate of the number of 

 cleanings, etc., required and an estimate of the amount of labour 

 and cost, (5) estimate of fencing. 



" A copy of the statement will be sent to the Conservator and 

 to the Range Officer concerned. 



" No clearfelling will be made in any working circle without 

 some definite steps being taken to ensure restocking. The choice 

 of the species with which the various parts of the coupes are to be 

 restocked as well as the method of restocking is left to the 

 Divisional Forest Officer firstly, because the choice depends on 

 local conditions and, secondly, because our present knowledge of 

 the silvicultural requirements as well as of the timber value of the 

 various species will be greatly extended during the next few 

 years. Suggestions regarding cleaning, weeding, and early 

 thinnings will be found in Appendix III." 



Here we have a complicated example with three separate series 

 of fellings and three rotations in each area, but it illustrates the 

 clearfelling system very well indeed. The extreme importance 

 must be emphasised of the prescription that " one-eightieth of the 

 whole felling series may be clearfelled annually, provided that 

 arrangements can be made for restocking the whole of the sal-bearing 

 area by means of cultivation and the remainder by means of 

 cultivation or otherwise." 



