FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN

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JAVED IQBAL

Lecturer in Forestry

SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN

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Forest Working Plan

A forest working plan has been defined as a written instruments of forest management “aiming at continuity of policy and action, and both prescribing and controlling basic operation in a forest estate over a period of year.

•Working plan is the principal document at forest level.

•Brings all the facts

•To attained the objectives

•Action programme

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Reasons behind the working plan

•Diversity of forest

•Enumeration of goals for forest management

•Continuity of policy

•Selection of alternative

•Coordination

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Working Plan (Part-I)

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I. The tract dealt with

II. The Forest

III. Utilization of the produce

IV. Staff and Labour supply

V. Past System of management

VI. Statistics of growth and yield

Physiography, Climate, Legal position

Description of growing stock and of injuries to which it is liable

Requirements of the local population, markets for the products from the forest, methods of exploitation and their cost

Present establishment and availability of lobour

Assessment of the extent to which the goals of past working plans have been achieved, out-turn of products, revenue and expenditure in the previous years

Calculation of increment, and volume and yield tables

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Working Plan (Part-II)

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I. Basic of Proposal

II. Separate chapters for working plans of

individual working circle

IV. Miscellaneous regulations

V. Establishment and labour

VI. Financial forecast

VII. Control and maintenance of records

Objectives, Method of treatment, division into working circles, analysis and valuation of the crop, period of the plan

Constitution of the working circles, division into felling series and block and compartments, objectives, analysis of growing stock, choice of species etc

Prescription common to all working circle, Petty fellings, minor forest produce, boundaries maintenance etc

Staff and labour required for work

Itemization of annual revenue and expenditure for the plan period

Conformity to the prescription of working plan, compartment history file and journal etc.

VIII. Summary of prescription and suggestions of the working plan Jav

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Basic Frame work of Forest Working Plan

•Pakistani working plan is divided into two parts

•Part-I deals with the summary of fact on which the proposals are based

•Part-II with future management discussed and prescribed

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Shortcomings of traditional format for the working plan

According to Johnston, Grayson and Bradley, the planning process may be regarded as comprising the following major components

1. Collection and organization of Data

2. Choice of objectives and testing of the different alternative courses of attaining them to select the most efficient.

3. Setting out the prescriptions to be followed in the form of a plan for a specific numbers of years.

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Shortcomings of traditional format for the working plan

•Lack a key element of the planning process

•Give a sketchy treatment to justifying the selection of objectives and the testing of different alternative courses of action available to attain them

•Several Possible rotation lengths

•Exploitable size

•Silviculture treatments

•Choice of species etc

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Suggested format for the working plan report

Part-I Chapter 1 Situation, History, and legal status Name and situation Area and its situation Boundaries General history Lagal Position Rights and concessions Roads, paths and buildings

Chapter 2 (Site factor) •Site factors •Climate •Physiography •Geology •Soil •Human population •Livesstock population •Causes of injury

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Part-I

Chapter 3 •The growing stock

•General description

•Quality classes

•Quantitative assessment

•Age/Size class distribution

Increment

Chapter 4 •Past Management and its results

•Summary of past management

•Effect on stocking

•Effect on age/Size-class distribution

•Effect on state of regeneration

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Part-I

Chapter 5 •Administration

•Administrative organization

•Establishment and pay scales

•Labour and wages

•Financial results of the plan under revision

Chapter 6 •Economics and Utilization

•Demand and supply of products and services

•Market prices of forest products

•Costs of various forest operations

•Method of Sale, conversion, extraction and transportation.

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Part-II (Choice of Alternative)

Chapter 1 Choice of objectives and constitution of working plan

Chapter 2 Choice of species for different sites

Chapter 3 Selection of the Silvicultural system

Chapter 4 Rotation / exploitable size

Chapter 5 The optimum stocking level

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Part-III

(Prescriptions for the period of the plan)

Chapter 1 Working circle

Chapter 2 Action of programme

Chapter ‘i’ Working Circle

Chapter ‘j’ Protection

Chapter ‘k’ Utilization

Chapter ‘l’ Road, Path, Building and boundaries

Chapter ‘m’ Administration

Chapter ‘n’ Control and maintenance of record

Chapter ‘o’ Financial results of the management prescribed

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