Answer:
Dietrich
Brandis set-up the Indian Forest Service in 1864 and helped formulate the
Indian Forest Act of 1865. In 1906 the Imperial Forest Research Institute was set
up at Dehradun and 'Scientific Forestry' was introduced in India. But
ecologists believe that this system is not scientific at all and has many
defects These are
(i) In this system natural forest diversity was harmed because different
types of trees were cut down.
(ii) This system advocated only those trees in forests which
provided timber. It snatched the different needs of forest dwellers. The forest
dwellers wanted a mixture of species of trees for their fuel fodder and food.
(iii) It also affected the ecological balance as
multi-species forest gradually got converted into plantation.
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