PAPER IV: KUF 234- FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WORKING PLAN-

Definition and scope, management of private forest vis-a-vis public forests, objects of management, Forest organization: Geographical and ecological classification, functional classification, legal classification, territorial classification, administrative classification and Silvicultural classification, Sustained yield, increasing and progressive yield, and arguments for and against sustained yield principles, Distribution of age classes and age gradation in even and uneven aged forest and growing stock, Normal forest- basic factors of normality, kinds of abnormality in regular and irregular forest, Yield regulation, concept and principles, Rotation, concept of rotation, types of rotation and conversion period, Working plan: objectives and scope of working plan, unit of working plan, WPO (Working Plan Officer) and preparation of working plan of forest division.