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The annual coupe will consist in approximately l/30th of the Valley type 
area in addition to the areas of such other crops as fall within the limits of the 
compartment or compartments in which such area of Valley type is situated. 
The order of the fellings is regulated by the course of the export roads existing 
or prescribed, this in its turn being mainly determined by the position of the 
areas containing the largest number of mature trees. 
The trees are to be marked for felling on the principle of the method of 
selection fellings, including the following conditions ; — 
(i) No sound sal tree under 6 feet in girth at 4 feet from the ground may 
be felled, unless the tree has a broken stem, or is bereft of large 
branches which have torn the stem in falling. 
(ii) Sill trees under 6 feet girth which are dead hollow, stag-headed, or 
diseased may be marked for felling, but only under the closest 
supervision.* 
(iii) Sound sal trees of 6 feet and over should not be felled so close together 
as to cause large blanks. In those compartments containing forest 
with numerous mature trees {vide para. 35 and Appendix 1), 
special caution must be exercised and a number of first class trees 
must be left. 
(iv) Trees should not be felled when they stand over heavy grass without 
advance growth. 
Lastly, the condition of the stock may necessitate the reservation 
for sylvicultural reasons of a proportion of the availlable mature or 
exploitable trees : and the number so reserved may amount to one- 
half or one-quarter of the whole stock of exploitable trees found 
standing in each felling area. 
Thus, for reasons fully explained below in prescribing the work- 
ing of the Tulsipur reserved forests, t 
Example 4. Stock very United Provinces, by the selection 
poor. One-half of available j j.i i i i r 
mature trees reserved. method, the removal of only one-half of 
the mature timber which is exploitable 
has been considered expedient. 
The growing stock is of such irregularity and, over a large part of the area, 
of so little commercial value, that no valuation by enumeration surveys or other- 
wise was attempted. Moreover, the method of treatment adopted does not 
render necessary any more precise analysis of the crop than that contained in 
Chapter II, Part I, and in a very detailed description of compartments. 
An estimate has been formed, for each compartment, of the area covered by 
each of the principal species. These areas have been worked out from stock 
maps on the 4-ineh scale, prepared by an eye-survey, and given with a short 
description of the crop in an Appendix. 
* “ This rule is necessary. The words ‘ diseased,* ‘ stag-headed,’ ‘ dying ’ are 
used by certain executive officers as an excuse to mark almost any tree required by 
purchaser, and a week or two after felling controlling officers are unable to say 
positively that the tree was not in one of these conditions.” 
t Working Plan for the Tulsipur forests of the Gonda Division, United Prp- 
vinces, by F. F. R. Channer, I.F.S., 1902. 
