Forest Society And Colonialism
Discuss the suggestion made by Dietrich Brandis.
The suggestions:
(i)Dietrich Brandis suggested that a proper system had to be introduced to manage the forests and people had to be trained in the science of conservation. This system would need legal sanction.
(ii)Rules about the use of forest resources had to be framed.
(iii)Felling of trees and grazing had to be restricted so that forests could be preserved for timber production.
(iv)Anybody who cut trees without following the system had to be punished.
(v)So Brandis set up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865. The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906. The system they taught here was called ‘scientific forestry’.
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