Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. - Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand,1802
Jhar Info

Forest Areas of Jharkhand
(In hectares)
| Serial No. | Forest Division | District | Reserved Forest | Protected Forest | Unclassified | Total | |
| 1. | Deoghar | Deoghar | - | 23546 | - | 31400 | |
| Santal Pargana | - | 7854 | - | ||||
| 2. | Dumka | 12853 | 148136 | - | 150989 | ||
| 3. | Hazaribagh West | Hazaribagh | 672 | 176524 | 340 | 177536 | |
| 4. | Hazaribagh East | Hazaribagh | 1743 | 63625 | 125699 | ||
| Giridih | - | 60331 | |||||
| 5. | Chatra South | Chatra | 752 | 101828 | - | 102580 | |
| 6. | Chatra North | Chatra | - | 93372 | - | 93372 | |
| 7. | Kodarma | Hazaribagh | 15630 | 73408 | - | 89038 | |
| 8. | Giridih | Giridih | 8776 | 143020 | - | 151796 | |
| 9. | Dhanbad | Dhanbad | 10825 | 15555 | - | 26380 | |
| 10. | Saranda | Singhbhum West | 81808 | 3988 | 86 | 85882 | |
| 11. | Kolhan | Singhbhum West | 58716 | 11258 | 68 | 70042 | |
| 12. | Porahat | Singhbhum West | 50628 | 15816 | 98 | 66542 | |
| 13. | Chaibas South | Singhbhum West | 31 | 50875 | - | 50906 | |
| 14. | Chaibasa North | Singhbhum West | 6486 | 61540 | - | 68026 | |
| 15. | Dhalbhum | Singhbhum East | 53050 | 51863 | - | 104913 | |
| 16. | Ranchi East | Ranchi | 11742 | 80182 | - | 91924 | |
| 17. | Ranchi West | Ranchi | 15677 | 57784 | 100034 | ||
| 18. | Lohardaga | Lohardaga | 10613 | 15960 | |||
| 19. | Latehar | Ranchi | 3417 | 10652 | - | 132384 | |
| Palamau | 17231 | 101084 | - | ||||
| 20 | Gumla | Gumla | 12102 | 118717 | 16 | 130835 | |
| 21 | Daltongunj North | Palamau | 3987 | 126661 | - | 130648 | |
| 22. | Garhwa South | Palamau | 549 | 123586 | - | 124135 | |
| 23. | Garhwa North | Palamau | - | 78705 | - | 78705 | |
| 24. | Daltonganj South | Palamau | 58081 | 46044 | 45 | 104170 | |
| 25. | Giridih - afforestation | Giridih | 485 | 16318 | - | 16803 | |
... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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