INTRODUCTION. 



TT is sought in these notes to explain, in a practical manner,, 

 the form in which working-plans such as are at present 

 required for the State forests of India, should be compiled,, 

 so that it may be possible to apply and to control them. The 

 discussion of calculations and theories which are inapplicable 

 in the actual condition of Indian Torestry has, as far as 

 possible, been avoided. 



The only means by which Local Governments have 

 hitherto, as a rule, attempted to secure a supply of forest 

 produce for the use of the agricultural population, has been 

 by burdening forest lands with rights under settlements. 

 Hence we find, in Northern India especially, many cases in 

 which Government has voluntarily rendered itself helpless to 

 prevent the destruction of the forest property it desires to 

 preserve. Such mistakes will cease to be made when it is 

 realised that the purpose with which each forest should be 

 managed can be presoribed by means of working-plans. 



But, in order that the vast areas under the control of 

 the forest Department in India may be brought under the 

 provisions of working-plans within a measurable distance of 

 time, it is necessary that the agency of subordinate officers 

 should be more largely utilised than has hitherto been the 

 custom in the collection of the data on which these plans are 

 based ; and that this may he feasible, some such instructions 

 as the present are obviously required. 



The writer desires to acknowledge the aid he has derived 

 from the work on Amenagement, recently published by Mon- 

 sieur Puton, Directeur de I'Mcole nationale foreatiere in 

 France. He is also indebted to the courtesy of Monsieur 

 Bartet, Impectuer des forits, in charge of the station de 

 reoherches at the Nancy Forest School, for copies of several 



