Huge Francis Clarke Cleghorn, is considered as the Father of Indian Forestry. He made an important contribution to Ooty by appointing McIvor to create the Botanical Gardens. McIvor was by nature quarrelsome, assuming and financially shrewd and speculative. Yet Cleghorn appointed him over others; and quite rightly so as historyRead More →
( Imagine you have fought taken part in World War I and II and taken a prisoner of war and waiting for death. What would you write down? You Will ? Letter to your loved ones? Or your war tales? This forest officer of Nilgiris wrote about Working Plans forRead More →
(It seems this summer Nilgirians have to satisfy themselves more by reading than seeing the myriad flowers in bloom. In 1944 one Torfrida (nick name ?) and May Dart (who sketched) brought out a slim volume on Nilgiri wild flowers titled, “Nurseries of Heavan- Wild Flowers of India. The introductionRead More →