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The Indian Forester July 1926

1926

The first was and is that its cost for ordinary mixed deciduous forest is out of all proportion to the advantage gained owing to the relatively poor stocking of valuable species the second that fire protection when carried out over long periods prevents the regenration of teak which is the most and over large areas the only valuable snecie3 in the forests. [...] The tree can apparently stand a fairly hot fire without the slightest damage even from the start of the plantation but the fire undoubtedly damages and kills back the young creepers which spring up and which cannot he cut at a reasonable cost in a cutch plantation owing to the thorny branches of the tree. [...] First the fires reduce the not too luxuriant undergrowth thus exposing the soil then the drip and rain water erode the soil and expose the tree roots the next year's fires further reduce the undergrowth and damage the exposed roots until finally the stage is reached where the soil is practically bare the roots of nearly every tree have been exposed and fire has killed' them. [...] In the case of the sal this dying back and the consequent formation of clumps of sal "switches" arising from a swollen and frequently ancient root stock is famous and the regeneration of sal forests is almost entirely dependent upon the presence of such advance growth at the time of the regeneration fellings true seedling rgeneration being practically unknown. [...] The pest has now appeared in the deodar forests of the Baspa Valley (Bushahr) and it will be no wonder if after a careful examination of these forests it is discovered that the attack of the fungus on deodar in this valley is as bad as that in the Lolab!3a8 INDIAN FORESTER [JULY In the course of my inspection of the Baipa Vatley forests for sample plot work last year in the first week ofJune I
agriculture environment
Pages
83
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Fire Protection in Plantations
317-321 G. S. Shirley view
Advance Growth
321-327 F. C. Osmaston view
Trametes Pini on Deodar in the Baspa Valley Bushahr State Punjab
327-330 Parma Suri view
List of Trade Names for Indian Timbers
331-340 unknown view
Editorial
340-342 unknown view
The Hibernation of Ground Squirrels
342-344 unknown view
Tentative Keys to the Orders and Families of Indian Insects
344-345 J. C. M. G. view
The Effect of Repeated Forest Fires upon the Reproduction of Commercial Species in Peterborough County Ontario by C. D. Howe Ph.D.
346-347 I. N. Sewal view
Extracts
347-371 unknown view
Correspondence
371-372 unknown view
Gazette Notifications
xlix-lvii unknown view
List of Books and Publications Received by the Hon. Editor During May-June 1926
lviii-lix unknown view
Backmatter
i-vii unknown view

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