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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. iv. 
POSSIBLE SITES FOR BAMBOO PAPER-PULP MILLS IN 
THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. 
Area No. I. (See portions marked D on map.) 
The Uppinangadi and Puttur bamboo areas in the South Canara 
Forest Division of the Madras Presidency. 
(1) Name and Situation. 
These forests are situated in the Uppinangadi Taluka of the South 
Canara Collectorate, some 60 miles inland from Mangalore, and a few 
miles short of the foot of the Western Ghats. The distance from the 
centre of the area to the sea is 60 miles. Down the Netravati river to 
Panimangalore is 40 miles, to which place sailing boats of five 
tons burden ply daily from Mangalore. The forests are drained 
in the north and centre by the Netravati river and its tributaries, 
the Kumardhari and by the Payaswani river in the Puttur Range, 
(See map.) 
(2) Description of the forests. 
The areas included in this scheme contain moist and dry deciduous 
forests with patches of evergreen, and are not dissimilar in character to 
those found in the neighbouring forests of North Kanara in the Bombay 
Presidency. In places the bamboo growth is not heavy but, in others-, 
especially along small water-courses and in depressions, it is extremely 
fine and luxuriant. 
(3) Areas of forests covered with bamboos. 
The areas directly taken into consideration in this scheme lie in the 
Uppinangadi and Puttur Ranges, though mention will hereafter be made 
of other areas which might also be added and from which raw material 
could be obtained. The forests now under consideration are made up 
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