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History

The Rise of Commercial Forestry

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Medium · Level 52 · commercial forestry,timber,colonial rule
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  1. To give free fuel to local people
  2. To supply timber for market and imperial needs
  3. To make all forests sacred places
  4. To completely stop agriculture
Medium · Level 52 · railways,wooden sleepers,timber demand
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  1. Because railways needed wooden sleepers and fuel
  2. Because railways brought rainfall to forests
  3. Because railways made trees grow automatically
  4. Because railways protected forests from farming
Medium · Level 52 · shipbuilding,navy,timber
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  1. Britain needed strong timber
  2. India had fewer sea fish
  3. Forests had more gold
  4. Cloth was made from trees
Medium · Level 52 · scientific forestry,monoculture,plantation
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  1. They were cut and replaced by rows of one type of tree
  2. They were left completely wild
  3. Only fruit trees grew automatically in them
  4. They were made private property of villages
Medium · Level 52 · Dietrich Brandis,forest administration,colonial India
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  1. As the first Inspector General of Forests
  2. As the first peasant leader
  3. As the first railway engineer
  4. As the first textile merchant
Medium · Level 52 · Indian Forest Service,state control,forests
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  1. To organise state control over forests
  2. To give villages full control over forests
  3. To settle wild animals in cities
  4. To give farmers tax-free cultivation
Medium · Level 52 · Indian Forest Act 1865,legal control,colonial forests
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  1. Increasing colonial government authority over forests
  2. Turning all forests into private gardens
  3. Ending forest trade completely
  4. Linking fishing with forests
Medium · Level 52 · Forest Act 1878,reserved forests,protected forests,village forests
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  1. Reserved, protected and village forests
  2. Tropical, cold and desert forests
  3. Agricultural, industrial and urban forests
  4. Red, yellow and black forests
Medium · Level 52 · reserved forests,forest control,timber
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  1. Because they provided valuable timber and people's rights were restricted
  2. Because all villagers were free to cultivate there
  3. Because there was no government control there
  4. Because they were only for pilgrimage
Medium · Level 52 · forest communities,livelihood,restrictions
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  1. Their traditional access to grazing, fuel and collection was restricted
  2. All their needs started being met freely
  3. They were made owners of forests
  4. They were not affected
Medium · Level 52 · shifting cultivation,scientific forestry,colonial policy
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  1. They saw it as an obstacle to planned timber production
  2. They considered it the best method for railway construction
  3. They saw it as the only way to raise revenue
  4. They linked it with city development
Medium · Level 52 · sal,deodar,timber,commercial forestry
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  1. They provided strong timber used in construction and railways
  2. They were planted only for decoration
  3. Sugar was made from them
  4. They produced salt in the sea
Medium · Level 52 · forest survey,mapping,administration
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  1. To organise timber resources and control
  2. To hold sports competitions in forests
  3. To leave forests completely empty
  4. To decide village festivals
Medium · Level 52 · marketable timber,revenue,commercial value
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  1. On marketable timber and revenue
  2. Only on the number of folktales
  3. On people sitting in tree shade
  4. On songs sung in the forest
Medium · Level 52 · scientific forestry,local people,restrictions
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  1. Because it increased restrictions on diverse forest uses
  2. Because it gave everyone free land
  3. Because it fully increased farming in forests
  4. Because it ended state control
Medium · Level 52 · grazing,forest laws,plantations
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  1. To protect new plantations and useful timber
  2. To make animals kings
  3. To connect villages with the sea
  4. To increase cotton production in forests
Medium · Level 52 · railway sleepers,deforestation,forest department
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  1. Increased forest cutting and government control
  2. Immediate drying of rivers
  3. All farmers moving to cities
  4. Complete end of forest laws
Medium · Level 52 · village forests,Forest Act 1878,regulated use
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  1. Some forests were set aside for village use but control remained limited
  2. All forests became private village property
  3. The government sold every forest
  4. There were no rules in these forests
Medium · Level 52 · commercial forestry,traditional use,livelihood
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  1. Commercial forestry focused on market timber while traditional use focused on livelihood
  2. There was no difference between them
  3. Traditional use was only for railways
  4. Commercial forestry was only for festivals
Medium · Level 52 · forest fires,plantations,timber protection
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  1. To protect timber and plantations from damage
  2. To stop rainfall
  3. To remove mountains
  4. To increase fish numbers