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IN the annual report of the Uganda Forestry Department for the year 1945 (Government Printer, Uganda, 1946), the objectives of the forest policy are laid down: first, to reserve in the State sufficient land either already under forest or capable of afforestation to maintain climatic conditions suitable to agriculture; to preserve water supplies; to provide forest produce for the agricultural industrial development, and to maintain soil stability in areas where the land is liable to deterioration if put to other uses; secondly, to manage the forest property of the State to the best financial returns, such as are consistent with the primary aims set out above; to encourage and assist the practice and science of forestry by native authorities, and private enterprise; and lastly, to foster by education and propaganda a real understanding among the people of Uganda of the value of forests to them and to posterity, and to educate selected Africans in technical forestry.
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Forestry in Uganda. Nature 158, 886–887 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158886b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158886b0