1 APPENDIX EK.
2 PROGRESS REPORT
3 FOREST ADMINISTRATION
4 IN TH
5 PROVINCE OF OUDII
6 DURING
7 1871-72,
8 SECTION I.
9 INSPECTION OF ForESTS.
10 1. The Officiating Conservator of Forests, left Faizabad for the Gonda
11 Torests on the 16th of November 1871, and in-
12 Officiating Conservator’s tours of in- sneated a number of the wooded grants in that
13 ee Distrtat, on hid way up to the Ara Nala, which is
14 the eastern limit of the Oudh Government Forests, Beginning at the Ara
15 Nala, and proceeding in a westerly direction, he inspected the Forests of the
16 Gonda, Bharaich and Kheri Divisions in succession, and reached Lucknow on
17 the 17th of April 1872.
18 2. In addition to the above mentioned tour of inspection, the Officiating
19 Conservator, visited the Ramgarh plantation in Oudh, several times during the
20 rains. He also went up to Simla in July, to assist in drawing up a Forest
21 account code, and during August he visited several sissoo plantations near
22 Lahore, and a deodar and pine forest near Dalhousie in the Punjab.
23 3. The wooded grants in the Gonda District are somewhat similar in
24 couiposition to the grants in the Kheri District,
25 Composition of the wooded grants iu byt they contain a smaller proportion of sal, and
26 the Gonda Dustrict
27 other valuable woods, and more of useless trees
28 and thorny shrubs. Many of them have been extensively cleared and cultivated,
29 and some have been cleared for the sake of the wood, and contain very little
30 cultivation. None of them are available for fuel reserves except Major Bigg’s
31 grant, which is already under the charge of this department. The grantees who
32 hold the rest are said to have fulfilled the conditions of their tenure, and cannot
33 be prevented from cutting down their coppice woods for sale.
34 4. Fewer signs of lopping were observed in the Gonda and Bharaich
35 Lopping branches for cattle browsing. Government Forests than_in the previous Sol,
36 but in one part of the Bharaich Division this
37 destructive practice is still very prevalent. No signs of lopping were seen in
38 the Kheri Forest Division.
39 5. <A large quantity of young timber illegally cut and collected in heaps
40 hoe ge : a ;
41 IMogal felling of green timber. during the rainy season, when the Forest Patrols
42 were not on the alert, were seen in the Gonda
43 Forests.
44 G. Sissoo trees were observed to be growing in abundance, with tall and
45 straivyht stems, along the banks of the streams
46 Condition of the Oudh Foresta situated ~~ noar tle Gonda hulls, Khair trees, which produce
47 at the foot of tho hills. : ° .
48 kutta, are also plentiful in those localities, but
49 they have been repoatedly cut down by the kutta manufacturers under the lease