10 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
account of the timber they do or may hold, but 
also having regard to their utility in furnishing 
forest produce to a present or prospective popula- 
tion, or in protecting the cultivation which already 
exists in the vicinity or may be created in the future. 
The assumption of the right of ownership by the 
State is then notified to all whom it may concern, 
and, after a detailed:inquiry, the claims of successful 
applicants to timber, fuel, produce, grazing, etc., 
are duly recorded. The area is then gazetted as 
State Forest, and comes under the Forest Law. 
But though afforestation is then complete, the work 
of the forester has but commenced. He has to 
demarcate the newly-created forest and arrange for 
its survey. Next he must draw up a plan for its 
working which will define the silvicultural treat- 
ment it is to receive during a period of years, and 
afford an estimate of its yield and of its revenue 
and expenditure. The plan will, moreover, suggest 
the staff that it will be necessary to maintain, and 
the roads, houses, and bridges, that may be suitably 
constructed. Finally it will provide a scheme for 
protection from fire, from cattle, and from men, - 
which must be both effective and workable in condi- 
tions which, at first, are almost always unfavourable. 
With this plan as his guide for the next ten, 
twenty, or more years, the forester will proceed to 
work by endeavouring to secure the good-will of the 
wild tribes of the forest or of those, more civilized, 
who live on its outskirts. He will probably find 
them indignant at the restriction of the full liberties 
previously enjoyed, and suspicious of any innovation 
which limits their destructive habits. He will find 
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