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older age classes) and only justifies the removal of a proportion of 
the exploitable trees in each annual felling area, say one-half or 
one-quarter of the available trees. The examples given below, taken 
from working plans in force in various parts of India and Burma, 
will show the procedure which has been followed under definite 
conditions. 
Thus, in the case of the Surai-Banbasa 
Example 1. Demand msig- forests of the Pilibhit Division, United 
ninc^int and uncertain. Area i 
of coupe undefined. Provinces,* the working-plan prescrip- 
tions read as follows: — 
It is proposed to treat this area of miscellaneous species by Selection, felling 
trees as they reach the girths which are thought to represent the commercial 
maturity of each species provided that the trees felled are not so situated that 
a regrowth in their place is not possible. The felling too will depend on the 
demand, and mature trees will not be removed unless there is a purchaser for 
them. They may be cut anywhere in the Circle at any time. 
The fellings will be restricted to the limits of size at which the several 
species are believed to become mature approximately. The demand is likely to 
be small, and the area being small also, no division into coupes is required. 
Fellings of mature trees may take place at any point at any time during 
the ten years of this plan. 
Selection fellings, regulated by the girth measurements at which the various 
species stocking the Working Circle are believed to become mature, have been 
prescribed. The following wall be the girth measurements at, or above which, 
the species in demand may be selected for felling : — 
Name of species. 
Girth at four feet from 
the ground. 
Khair, kari, pula, dholdbak, amaltas, kumbi, asid, chilla, gurgia, 
maini, tendu, dudhi, bhurbula, khaja, bel, bhilawa, aonla 
4 feet. 
Shisham, jhigna, paira, dhak, maulia, kachnar .... 
5 „ 
Haldu 
7 „ 
A.11 other tree-size species ... .... 
6 „ 
The trees may be felled in any year at any part of the area, but those in 
blanks too large to be regenerated from the surrounding forest should be spared. 
In the method by area, the division of the forest into suitable 
felling areas is always a matter of im- 
arbitrarily fixed. portance. I he felling rotation may as m 
the case of the Working Plan for the 
• Working Plan for the Surai-Banbasa forests, Pilibhit Division, United Pro- 
vinces, by Pandit Sadanand Gairola, Provincial Forest Service, 1902. 
