The Management of Forests

The Management of Forests is indispensable for foresters and forestry students. The author has used his experience of twenty-five years in the Indian Forest Service and the seven years in Edinburgh and fourteen years at Oxford as a lecturer in Forestry to put together in one book what forest management entails and how the subject should be applied. The book offers a critical exposition of the classic principles, methods and silvicultural systems on which forestry has been founded and shows how these principles are affected by modern conditions and economic change. He explains the impact of mechanization, modern transport and large-scale industry in particular on some of the long-accepted precepts of forestry, even on those of the normal forest and sustained yields. The book fulfils a most important function in providing the essential links between old theories and the commercial attitudes today. In doing so, it gives the student a balanced understanding of both silvicultural and managerial planning. Other aspects like working plans, analysis and comparison of methods of yield regulation for use in various silvicultural systems, the possibilities of linear programmes, the discussion of finance and of the compilation of operational account and balance sheets has all been explained thoroughly. This book remains invaluable for a keen and thorough understanding of the management of forests as they exist today.