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is 30 years ; and the enumeration surveys gave the following 
results : — 
Forests. 
Number of 
I Class trees 
over 5' girth. 
Number of 
II Class trees 
4' to 5'. 
Palampur series ........ 
10,426 
10,685 
Kanyara series ........ 
2,49.5 
2,128 
Narwana-Chandarban series ...... 
8d301 
1,978 
* 
27,522 
14,791 
In some of these forests, notably in Narwana and Chandarban, the second 
class trees are not in proper proportion, and so, in order to be on the safe side, 
it is proposed to limit the yield during the period with which the Plan is con- 
cerned to from one-third to two-thirds of the present stock of trees of exploitable 
dimensions; the proportion of the stock to be felled being determined with due 
regard to the incidence of the grazing rights (closed or open to grazing) and the 
condition of the crop. Nine -tenths of the area comprising the Palampur series 
is open to grazing, portions of some of the forests have been rather heavily 
worked in the past, and the regeneration is not very good; consequently the 
fellings have been limited to the removal of rather less than one-third of the 
mature stock. The Kanyara series is also open to grazing, but the regeneration 
is good and the proportion of second class stems fairly satisfactory, so that 
two-fifths of the mature trees can be cut without fear. Narwana-Chandarbau 
also is open to grazing and the proportion of second class stems is very 
deficient; but the regeneration is excellent and justifies the removal of two- 
fifths of the first class trees. The yield fixed for each forest, compartment or 
sub-compartment, is given in the table of fellings. 
Again, in the case of the deodar forests of the Bashahr* Division 
we read as follows : — 
It is believed that to propose the removal of the whole of the first class 
stock during the period in which the second class w'ill reach maturity would 
be too drastic, more especially as this course would probably result in having to 
reduce the exploitable size to 6 feet in girth, which is inadvisable, and in 
having to face a large reduction in the yield at the close of the period with 
which the plan is concerned. It is proposed therefore to leave in each felling 
series an average of one existing first class tree per acre of workable forest at 
the end of the period necessary for the present second class trees to become 
first class, and to cut the remainder of the present first class in the number of 
* Revised Working Plan of the Bashahr Leased Sutlej Valley forests, Pnnjab, 
1905, by G. S. Hart, I.F.S., and A. J. Gibson, I.P.S. 
