TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



1. History of the Porest Department 



2. Area, Classes and Types of Forests 



3. Forest Policy and Legal Control 



4. Administration and Staff 



5. Research 



■6. Forest Organization and Exploitation 



7. Forest Products 



8. Forest Industries 



9. Financial Results 



10. Future Prospects and Requirements 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



1. The Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun . 



2. Himalayan wet slide for the export of sleepers 



3. Dragging teak timber in the forests of Burma 



4. The chos of Hoshiarpur. Erosion 



5. Teak plantation, Nilambur .... 



6. Valuable sal forest killed by abnormal drought 



7. Sal forest of good quality, Bengal 



8. Forest steam tramway, Goalpara . 



9. Blue gum plantation in the ISTilgiris . 



10. Pole crop of chir pine ..... 



11. Natural regeneration of chir pine forest 



12. Young teak taungya plantation, Burma 



13. Deodar forest .... a . 



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