. i ■ ./ i o 1 Book Review Banko Janakari, Vol.9,No.2 ___________________________________________________________________  __________________________________________________________________________________________        Introduction to Forestry 
Publisher: Vikash Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., India Year:
 1998 
Pages: 262 
Price: IRs 135 

There has always remained a 
constraint of reading materials 
particularly in the technical 
subjects such as forestry in the 
libraries of the third world 
countries. Nepal is not an 
exception to it. There could be 
no argument that the 
limitation of reading materials 
limits the standard of 
education for a given country. 
Students at the Institute of 
Forestry at Pokhara and at 
Hetauda have felt a greater 
need of text as well as 
reference books. And, forestry 
which is not a single subject, 
rather is the aggregation of 
various applied sciences, there 
could be no single book 
dealing with the forestry 
subjects for beginners. At such 
circumstances,
 a
n 

introductory book on forestry 
is always felt needed by the 
students to save their time 
from searching a vast literature 

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improvement, wood 
technology, social forestry, 
forest policy and law, forestry 
research and future trends in 
forestry, etc. seems to serve 
not only the students at the 
college level, but is of 

briefly described, will particularly 
attract the siudcnts of the region. 
However, Nepali students may be a 
little bit disappointed for not seeing 
any thing on participatory fores  

Dr. M. B. Shrivastava of the 
Department of Forestry, the 
Papua New Guinea University 
of Technology, who has 
almost thirty years of 
experience at various capacities 
in the field of forestry, has 
done a commendable job of 
writing a book entitled 
Introduction to Forestry. 
The book that covers the 
broad spectrum of forestry 
and includes silviculture, 
mensuration, forest survey and 
inventory, management, 

utilisation, protection, tree 

reference value to the practitioners. 

Distribution of forests types 
depends on the distribution and 
characteristics of climate types. In 
this context, the author has, wisely 
started with three chapters of his 
book with the climate of the world 
thereby linking it with the world 
vegetation types in the fourth 
chapter. Forests of the Indian sub-
continent, though 

management. The subject which has 
drawn attention of the forestry 
managers in the third world 
countries, and in Nepal it has 
remained in the top priority. 

Sushim Ranjan Baral Ph.D. 
Department of Forest Research and 
Survey