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PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



Artificial 

 reproduc- 

 tion. 

 Table of 

 /eUings. 



standards will be removed but with this reservation, unthrifty 

 standards will be removed first. Where the coppice crop has failed, 

 no standards will be removed. A thinning will be made at the 

 same time in the coppice. This should not be very heavy, and will 

 consist almost entirely of reducing the number of coppice shoots to 

 one per stool. In the same year a cleaning will be made in the 

 coupe, climber cutting and all cleaning operations found necessary 

 being carried out. All coppice shoots of miscellaneous species 

 suppressing the sal will be cut back. 



In the eleventh year the number of standards will be further 

 reduced to the number per acre ordered to stand throughout the 

 rotation. The best standards should be retained as far as is 

 compatible with the requirements of the coppice, the even distribu- 

 tion of the standards and the suitable gradation of age classes. 



In the same year a thinning will be made in the coppice. It 

 will be found that the height growth and density of the coppice 

 crop will vary considerably from coupe to coupe, so the nature of 

 this thinning cannot be indicated beyond saying that the most 

 promising stems should be favoured and given enough room to 

 develop freely for the next 10 years. 



In the 21st year another and final thinning will take place in 

 the coppice crop. At this age the coppice will have a diameter 

 of B" 5" and the ideal density of stocking will be about 400 500 

 trees per acre. This thinning in the coppice should just be heavy 

 enough to give each pole plenty of room to develop freely during 

 the next 10 years, before it is finally felled at the end of the coppice 

 rotation. 



The completion of the stocking artificially as detailed for simple 

 coppice should be carried out. 



The following table from the Pilibhit Working Plan 66 sum- 

 marises all work to be done in the first ten coupes of the Dhamela 

 Working Circle during the first 10 years of the plan. The roman 

 numbers refer to coupes. 



65 Working Wan for the filibhit 'Division HALL 



