Abstract
AT the present juncture in forestry matters and the available stocks of timber in the world's forests, it would be difficult to over-estimate the value of the discussion which took place at the sixth Sylvicultural Conference held at Dehra Dun, India, in April 1945 on “The Efficiency of Enumerations”. Indian Forest Leaflets (Sylviculture) Nos. 83, 84 and 85 (Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, U.P. 1945) deal with the resolutions made at the Conference and the progress so far achieved. The reason for instituting the investigations in India was due to the extra fellings rendered necessary in the well-managed forests by war demands. If such investigations are held to be so urgent in India, where so large a proportion of the State forests are under working plans, the position in large parts of the world's forests outside India where unrestricted war fellings have been carried out in the absence of any detailed knowledge of what the forests contained, or to what degree they were being over-felled, may be imagined. These leaflets come at a most opportune moment.
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Efficiency of Forest Enumerations. Nature 157, 595–596 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157595a0
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