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 Part II.-PREPARATIOx\ OF THE WORKING-PLAIV. 



CHAPTER I.— PRELIMINARY WORK. 



Section I. — Reconnaissance of the area. 



1. Selection of the area to be dealt witb.— The area under forest 

 tnanagement in a singrle locality generally includes separate 

 forests requiring diEFerent cultural treatment, and, not infre- 

 quently, forests of different c^«sj?e«, — Reserved, Protected or 

 LTnclassed, — each, perhaps, demanding a different system of 

 management. All these areas may have, however, many 

 points in common. They ordinarily supply the same popu- 

 lation or market with forest produce, the labourers come 

 from the same locality, the lines of export for all are often 

 the same, and the management and working are supervised 

 by the same establishment. It is, therefore, generally advis- 

 able that the organisation of the whole area of Government 

 land under forest management in one loeality should be 

 carried out simultaneously and be dealt with in a single 

 working-pian report.* Generally speaking, it will oe con- 

 venient to deal with the whole area of a charge, such as the 

 Division, the Range, or, where the organisation is incom- 

 plete, with an area likely in the future to form a single 

 range. It may be necessary in some instances to deal with 

 the forests in a portion of a range, and, owing to special cir- 

 cumstances often observable in India, in some cases it may 

 be advisable to extend the provisions of a single plan over 

 several ranges. 



There existed at one time some difference of opinion on this point 5n Europe. 

 Ponnerly, in France, enoh forest estate, bearing adistinot name either because of its 

 sitnation or its origin, or the manner in whicn it Wis acquired by the State, was sepa- 

 ratelv organised under a working-plan of its owq. It has thus sometimes come 

 about that separate working-plans have been framed for adjacent State forests in the 

 Bime division or range, and, inversely, there are instances in which a single working- 

 plan deals with forest areas in dstinct administrative charges. EiioentU, however, 

 the tendency in France has been t» adopt the practice followed in Germany, where 

 the whole forest area belonging to the State, or other one proprietor, included in a 

 single executive charge (that of a Revier forster, Oherforsler, Worst meister, etc., 

 equivalent to our Banger or Divisional oflBcer) is dealt with in a single comprehensive 

 working-plan. 



In India, in the past, no uniform course ha« been followed in this respect. 

 In many oaie* each claw of property (reserved or protected forest) has been separately 



• The term " working-plan, ' it should be remembered, ii usaii here in the sense ex- 

 plained at the beginning of these n.ites as meaning "wTking-plan report " and not the 

 special regulation which is drawn up for each voorking-circie into which the area dealt Viith 

 in therepoit is sab-divided. 



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