Section A
1. Forest Management and Management Systems :
● Objective and principles; techniques;
● stand structure and dynamics, sustained yield relation; rotation, normal forest, growing
stock; regulation of yield;
● management of forest plantations, commercial forests, forest cover monitoring.
● Approaches viz., (i) site-specific planning, (ii) strategic planning, (iii) Approval, sanction
and expenditure, (iv) Monitoring (v) Reporting and governance.
● Details of steps involved such as formation of Village Forest Committees, Joint Forest
Participatory Management.
2. Forest Working Plan :
● Forest planning, evaluation and monitoring tools and approaches for integrated planning;
● multipurpose development of forest resources and forest industries development;
● working plans and working schemes, their role in nature conservation, bio-diversity and
other dimensions; preparation and control.
● Divisional Working Plans, Annual Plan of Operations.
3. Forest Mensuration and Remote Sensing :
● Methods of measuring - diameter, girth, height and volume of trees;
● form-factor; volume estimation of stand, current annual increment; mean annual
increment.
● Sampling methods and sample plots.
● Yield calculation; yield and stand tables,
● forest cover monitoring through remote sensing;
● Geographic Information Systems for management and modeling.
4. Surveying and Forest Engineering :
● Forest surveying - different methods of surveying, maps and map reading.
● Basic principles of forest engineering.
● Building materials and construction. Roads and Bridges;
● General principles, objects, types, simple design and construction of timber bridges.
