sentences:  Fourcade had to watch more or less helplessly how up to 600 men lived in the forest, with timber theft rife.The Conservator of Knysna had limited jurisdiction over the forests until the Forest Act of 1888 was passed.In the intervening period, ruination of forest land was tolerated by the Civil Commissioner, a Maximillian Jackson, who many a time found himself at loggerheads with Fourcade.