Contents: Preface to volume I. Preface to volume XXV. Foreword. 1. Impact of open cast mining pollutants on vegetation at Bisrampur colliery of Madhya Pradesh/D.L. Nandeswar and S.K. Banerjee. 2. National and state trees, flowers, birds and mammals of India/M.K. Seth and Ajai Bhandari. 3. Conservation measures for arable lands of Northern hilly region/K.S. Dadhwal, N.K. Sharma, Gambhir Singh and S.C. Mohan. 4. Floral diversity assessment, utilization and conservation in Punjab/Sanjeev K. Chauhan, H.N. Khajuria, Rajni Chauhan and M.K. Gera. 5. Wood preservation in Forest Research Institute, India – an overview/Indra Dev, Sadhna Tripathi and Satish Kumar. 6. Dynamics of volatile oil of Cymbopogon martinii Var. Motia (Palmarosa) under Leaf Rust Disease indices/Momoni Saikia, Paran Baruah, Bhabani P Misra and Madan G. Pathak. 7. Evaluation of a few bamboo and reed varieties available in the forest of North Eastern region for production of rayon grade pulp/C.N. Saikia. 8. Macadamia – a promising edible nut for India/K. Pradhan. 9. Growth performance of selected tropical forest tree species as influenced by potting media containing garbage/K. Gopikumar, Minichandran and K. Vidhyasagaran. 10. Bioproductivity and nutrient concentration in Phyllanthus maderaspatensis linn/P. Shanmughavel, R. Manjula and K. Francis. 11. Insect pests of Tectona Grandis L.F. an update/N. Roychoudhury, K.C. Joshi and Manish Chourasia. 12. First report on Polyembryony in Pinus roxburghii Sarg/Kamal Sharma.