Over time, Nepal’s forestry administration began to grow, fostering a highly disciplined semi-military forest service with rigid hierarchical structures, centralised institutions, timber oriented and technically minded professionals.” To this day, curriculums in most of Nepal’s colleges teach a Dehradun-style curriculum, using books published by the newly named Forest Research Institute. In Chaubas for example, only four of the eight forest guard posts are filled. Less than a fifth of the 7,500 staff at the DoF are technicians.