KABAROLE DISTRICT FORESTRY OFFICE ARCHIVES The Archives of the Forestry Office, Kabarole District The archives of the Forestry Office are of considerable interest to anyone interested in the natural or environmental history of eastern Africa. Since the onset of colonial rule in the late 19th century government has set aside large tracts of land as state-run forests, including Bwindi, Budongo, and the Rwenzori Mountains National Park. The Forestry Office was responsible for the care and management of these large tracts of territory. In this archive are papers concerning the bureaucracy of natural resource management. But there is also rich material for natural scientists: records on rainfall, on vegetation, on wildlife, on soil and other matters. Until 2010 the archive was kept in an attic above the local government building (called ‘Boma’), under a leaky roof. The papers were an extremely bad state: the cardboard boxes in which they were kept had been inhabited with wasps, and many boxes had been subjected to rain. In 2012 the district government agreed that the Forestry Office papers should join the larger archive held by Mountains of the Moon University. With funding from the Cooperative Africana Materials Project, the University of Michigan and other donors, the collection was moved to the University’s premises, where the dusty files were cleaned, organized, catalogued and scanned. The greatest bulk of this considerable archive (consisting of over 500 boxes) is of course from the Forestry Office. There are also stray files from other government offices of Kabarole District which have been catalogued with this collection. The cataloguing of the Kabarole District Foresty Office Archive was conducted in 2012 and 2013 by Mr. Akugizibwe Moses, Mr. Kimbugwe Adolph, Mr. Musinguzi Sylvester, and Ms. Baryabuza Anna, working under the district of Mr. Evarist Ngabirano. Kabarole District Forestry Office 1 BOX NO FILE NO CATEGORY START DATE END DATE FILE NAME CONTENTS 1 1 FORESTRY 30/1/64 21/10/66 Applicaon for employment-General/recrui@nG of ranGers 1 2 FORESTRY 15/12/51 21/10/66 Toro forest rules 2 1 FORESTRY 27/5/70 10/2/72 Mescellenous forestry reports and notes 2 2 FORESTRY 5/6/58 20/8/60 Expenditure es@mates 1959/60 Techinical notes and silv's tour notes,mycoloGical notes for 3 1 FORESTRY 19/3/58 18/8/59 kenya and tanGanyika Depatment card for ranGers and 3 2 FORESTRY ?? ?? No cover Forest department,clothinG and equipment learners,Guards,drivers,office boys,petrol men etc. Claim for tavellinG allowance,repair of Government 3 3 FORESTRY 20/4/60 1/6/60 bicycle,charGinG baery(General reciepts 4 1 FORESTRY ?? ?? Monthly summary of costs Forest research projects,plantaon projects,silvicultural 5 1 FORESTRY 18/4/51 18/4/61 research plan etc. 5 2 FORESTRY 20/7/61 13/7/62 expenditure and revenue returns. Provincial consolidated quZurn returns by H.O & 5 3 FORESTRY July-Sept 1/11/60 correspondences. 6 1 FORESTRY 7/8/61 27/9/77 Reports,mt and North Rwenzori C.F.R,correspondences etc. No cover,development tax reserve reGister forms.plan Government par@cipaon in wood 6 2 FORESTRY 5/8/71 26/10/71 records,claims, Gov't par@cipaon in wood indus@es industries,correspondences. Kalinnzu enumeraon and reGeneraon,budonGo Toro enumeraon correspondences and 6 3 FORESTRY 17/8/54 13/12/57 enumeraon correspondences enumeraon-General No cover, Itwara enumeraon,kibale 6 4 FORESTRY 17/11/51 18/2/58 enumeraon,enumeraon of tropical hiGh forest etc 7 1 FORESTRY 13/10/59 9/11/61 Techinical notes,mycoloGical notes for kenya and tanGanyika 7 2 FORESTRY 23/2/43 30/1/46 Monthly returns for budonGo division pole rates,pole supplies,pole and fuel 7 3 FORESTRY 3/2/38 21/12/56 Fuel supplies for Busingiro division prices,labour camps etc 8 1 FORESTRY 2/1/62 21/5/63 Miscelleneous correspondences 8 2 FORESTRY 7/12/55 8/5/57 Casual licences and sales includinG bills 8 3 FORESTRY 8/10/54 17/12/55 Casual licences and sales includinG bills 9 1 FORESTRY 4/1/56 14/11/58 LeZer reGister,outward from 1/1/56 9 2 FORESTRY 14/11/52 8/10/58 Silvacultural miscellenous correspondences 9 3 FORESTRY 26/9/67 4/1/69 General expenditure 1967/68 10 1 FORESTRY Oct-56 26/1/59 K & K work plan (copy ) 1956-Revision Food returns and correspondences,raoninG of Group A 10 2 FORESTRY 13/6/61 27/5/57 labour etc. 10 3 FORESTRY 5/4/57 28/4/61 WorkinG plans sec@on quaterly reports 10 4 FORESTRY 19/1/59 30/6/70 WorkinG plans-General CRF's (IncludinG plan areas provincial Kabarole District Forestry Office 2 BOX NO FILE NO CATEGORY START DATE END DATE FILE NAME CONTENTS WorkinG plan-Kyehara/Kikumiro C.F.R's plantaon sample plot 10 5 FORESTRY 1/9/65 1960/61 records 11 1 FORESTRY 28/2/49 8/3/57 Food returns and correspondences 11 2 FORESTRY Oct-74 May-77 Allocaon Department warrants etc Revenue expenditure returns 12 1 FORESTRY 8/1/57 8/1/57 Ludoviko Anobere driver U.P.F 9 12 2 FORESTRY 17/8/54 21/4/69 Quaterly reports-Northern reGion and other districts 12 3 FORESTRY 11/12/56 7/2/58 Techinical notes-Kenya & TanGanyika Silva's tour notes (IncludinG mycoloGical notes) 12 4 FORESTRY 19/5/59 26/8/63 Reports,map sec@on includinG publicity Charcoal development scheme (Applicaon for burninG 13 1 FORESTRY 16/5/68 28/1/80 charcoal) 14 1 FORESTRY 2/4/69 20/12/72 Forest ranGers records & correspondences 14 2 FORESTRY 2/1/63 9/11/70 HousinG department staff 14 3 FORESTRY 21/4/54 23/1/58 Concession licences-buGoma forest 15 1 FORESTRY 7/7/59 31/3/69 Staff ranGers (includinG staff leave) FORESTERS 15 2 FORESTRY 7/6/60 9/2/71 Subsequent history,summary of operaons & costs 16 1 FORESTRY 6/5/48 24/6/59 African staff-Asst foresters and ranGers (includinG leave) 16 2 FORESTRY 10/6/58 29/12/67 Toro Government reciepts 16 3 FORESTRY 14/2/43 29/6/56 Enumeraons 17 1 FORESTRY 24/11/75 29/12/75 Forms for pitsawyers (no cover) 17 2 FORESTRY 24/3/58 29/11/58 Circulars (no cover) 18 1 FORESTRY 22/3/63 20/3/64 Stores General Safes,cash box etc. 18 2 FORESTRY 12/7/66 18/9/69 Miscelleneous correspondences 19 1 FORESTRY 2/1/63 15/11/71 Forest ranGers -General maers 19 2 FORESTRY 17/2/60 28/12/62 HousinG department staff 19 3 FORESTRY 1/7/65 24/6/66 FellinG Arers,Fortportal plantaons daily records buGoma Licence,labour lines,inpec@on notes & 20 1 FORESTRY 14/1/44 12/10/55 correspondences 20 2 FORESTRY 5/12/47 8/7/57 budonGo Truck department vehicles Annual and Monthly reports-provincial forest officer,N & 20 3 FORESTRY 31/12/45 23/3/59 W.P.S. 21 1 FORESTRY ??/1951 ??/1963 Summary of rainfall records in UGanda from 1951-1963 21 2 FORESTRY 20/1/53 26/11/53 Allocaon Department-Wts & imprests 22 1 FORESTRY 31/7/66 16/9/67 General expenditure 22 2 FORESTRY 30/8/68 30/10/72 Safaris 23 1 FORESTRY 26/6/71 7/7/80 HandinG over reports-Senior officers 23 2 FORESTRY 23/12/68 8/6/71 Conferences-Senior officers 24 1 FORESTRY 29/7/92 25/8/93 Staff maers -General 24 2 FORESTRY 2/7/69 7/7/72 Safari ArranGement-Rest houses etc 24 3 FORESTRY 12/5/54 25/11/55 WorkinG plan-MafunGa plantaons Kabarole District Forestry Office 3 BOX NO FILE NO CATEGORY START DATE END DATE FILE NAME CONTENTS 25 1 FORESTRY 9/10/60 30/6/69 Safari ArranGement-Rest houses etc 25 2 FORESTRY 14/6/48 13/1/64 HandinG over reports 25 3 FORESTRY 14/6/47 24/3/49 HandinG over 26 1 FORESTRY 30/5/78 15/5/85 Forest produce 26 2 FORESTRY 27/8/73 20/11/78 Miscelleneous correspondences Allocaon & warrants July 1954-June 1955,June 1955-June 26 3 FORESTRY 15/7/54 25/7/56 1956 27 1 FORESTRY 15/9/76 30/1/89 Forest Guards maers 27 2 FORESTRY 10/8/62 10/3/64 Department warrants & allocaons 1962/63/64 27 3 FORESTRY 10/1/73 3/9/79 Tours and Safaris 28 1 FORESTRY 3/5/77 21/4/81 Out turn-Fuel wood & minor produce 29 1 FORESTRY 16/8/57 31/12/58 Maps & Aerial surveys 29 2 FORESTRY 26/6/58 28/8/59 Allocaon & warrants July 1958-June 1959 29 3 FORESTRY 21/10/77 25/10/77 District copy of nature reserve CPT 22 & 49 Kibale Toro 29 4 FORESTRY 14/4/58 14/9/59 Soj wood plan@nG and seZlement South Ankole C.F.R 30 1 FORESTRY 6/11/68 24/5/71 Senior Officer's Conference 30 2 FORESTRY 31/1/55 17/8/56 Techinical notes and silv's tour notes (Kenya and TanGanyika) Quaterly reports: Forest entomoloGist (includinG Annual 30 3 FORESTRY 6/6/57 17/8/72 reports) 31 1 FORESTRY 7/6/63 21/11/72 Mileage & TravellinG claims correspondences 31 2 FORESTRY 16/2/39 2/11/56 HandinG over reports & statements No cover Acceptance of appointments,reciepts,monthly 32 1 FORESTRY 5/6/70 10/1/76 schedule of standard contribu@on dues etc 32 2 FORESTRY 2/1/54 22/1/55 No cover Secretariat Circulars 32 3 FORESTRY 4/8/67 21/5/59 No cover Local and trunk calls,Monthly reoports etc.