Forest Administration Report of the Northern Circle Bombay Presidency for the Official Year 1886-87

Whether the sanctioned demarcation schemes of the several tilukas provide sulIciently for the storage of the rainfall in the country— for the maintenance of a water-supply in springs rivers tanks and for the natural irrigation of the lands upoh the lower levels Of the country which being occupied for purposes of cultivation ought to be comanded by forests located up on the higher levels whi [...] With the ever present examples of the silted up condition of the tidal channels of inland navigation of the RatnAgiri Collectorate owing to the destruction of the forests upon their catchments; and of the Gulf of Cambay with the estuary of the Ttipti River the importance of.extending forest reservation downwards to at least the base co-tour line of all the hilly lands and of 'maintaining inw'th [...] on the part of all the forest officers consulted on account of the proposed exclusion of bill slopes containing valable teak and other timber the property of Government and the insufficiency of the projects for protecting all the drainage slopes in the two talukri.s. [...] The only work remaining to be done in the Nasik Collectorate at the close of the year was the completion of the revision of the demarcation and settlement of the Dindori Taluka and of the Igatpuri Taluka —the former partially done and the latter not yet commenced. [...] The orders of Government upon the settlement and demarcation reports of the five talultds of Tdsgaon Khrtnapur Khatdv Patan and Valva remain to be issued ; the reports of the two first-named are with Government the Khatd v and Pdtan projects are with the Commissioner and the In charge of western division For the whole district Mr.