From last issue.
1. FOREST INFLUENCE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN EAST PAKISTAN :
Background informations :
(a) East Pakistan is a land of rivers . The importance of rivers in
the socio-economic life of East Pakistan is phenomenol . But unfortunately
the watersheds of the most of rivers in East Pakistan are outside the
political boundaries • Almost all the watersheds of the rivers coming from
Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of watersheds of the rivers flowing from
southern hills of Sylhet district are,however, in East Pakistan •

THE PRESENT WORKING PLAN?
The amount of work laid down in the preparation and presentation
of periodic working plans for the forest divisions is impreSsive.Compared
with similar plans in most other countries the East Pakistan working plans
are undoubtedly of a very high standard. They contain a wealth of
forests
not easily found elsewhere.
Working plans in their present form date back to mid 19th or
eVen late 18th century German forestry. The ideas and concepts of Central
methods and techniques developed have served the forestry of several
countries for better or worse for generations. But with the changing
position of forests in national economics, in land use policy and as
producers of raw material for industry,. a more dynamic approach also to
planning in forestry is under way.
This raises the question of working plans in the future East
Pakistan forestry business. In this paper it is attempted to examine how
the working plans of to-day are related to the forestry of to-morrow, and
some tentative lines of development are suggested

The seminar was sponsored by the Food & Agriculture
Organisation and the International Labour Organisation of the
United Nations, and hosted by the Forestry Agency of the Government of Japan. 13 countries of Asia and the Far East .participated in the Seminar with 26 participants. The primary object of
the Seminar was to introduce improved forest working technique
and the training of forest workers in the countries in Asia and
the Far East. While in Europe, U.S.A., Canada and other developed countries substantial progress has been made in introduction of improved forest working technique and training of forest
workers in various specific jobs, many of the developing countries could not substantially contribute in these lines. The
importance of introduction of improved techniques in forestry
. operation and the vital role played by the workers in making it
a success, cannot be over emphasised. Pakistan like many other
developing countries could not yet introduce the improved forest
. working techniques and the forest workers’ training in the r£al
sense of the term. The training programme in Pakistan is at present limited to the supervisory staff of Forest Department.. No
step has yet been taken to train the forest workers to obtain
the maximum benefit.

Forest research does not in general-require sophisticated
techniques and elaborate equipment • It does, however, more
often than not require considerable time and considerable space.
One of the effects of the sheer size of forest research
projects is that the planning and scheduling of research
procedures over time become important • It may also become
a difficult task •

Bleaching studies were conducted on the semichemical
pulp prepared’ from thei_mixture of 8(eight) minor hardwood
species-namely Itchri (Anogeissus acuminata), Amra (bpondias
Pinnata) , Barta (Art oca rpus lakoocha), dhamphata {Eapium baccaturn) , Gu