Forest technician certification (GANIS PHPL: cruisers, timber graders, planners)

Indonesia · Ministry of Forestry (Kementerian Kehutanan) · professional · unverified source

28practice questions written to this syllabus
3subjects

Format

Unverified. Training followed by competency testing for specific technical roles in production-forest management.

Sections

Over the years

Unverified. Concession holders must employ certified technical staff; this links to Indonesia's legality and sustainability verification systems.

Official source: https://www.kehutanan.go.id/

Subjects this exam draws on

Forest Inventory & Sampling Design4 questionsNon-Timber Forest Products, Bamboo & Medicinal Plants7 questionsForest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management17 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. Strips 20 m wide are cruised with centre lines 200 m apart. What is the cruise intensity?

  1. 10 per cent
  2. 20 per cent
  3. 1 per cent
  4. 5 per cent
Answer and working

A. 10 per cent

Intensity = strip width ÷ line spacing = 20 ÷ 200 = 10%. 20% uses 100 m spacing; 5% halves the width; 1% is a decimal slip.

Forest Inventory & Sampling Design · Point, line and strip cruising

2. Over-tapping of Sterculia urens for gum has:

  1. Doubled tree growth
  2. Killed many trees
  3. Made the tree evergreen
  4. Turned the gum into resin
Answer and working

B. Killed many trees

Deep or excessive blazes on Sterculia urens have killed many trees, so guidelines limit the number and size of tapping wounds. Tapping does not double growth, make the tree evergreen or turn gum into resin.

Non-Timber Forest Products, Bamboo & Medicinal Plants · Gums and resins: tapping and processing

3. Reduced-impact logging includes:

  1. Directional felling
  2. Clear-felling all stems in one pass
  3. Driving machines to every tree
  4. Ignoring stream buffers
Answer and working

A. Directional felling

Plus inventory, climber cutting, low stumps, winching.

Forest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management · Sustainable forest management: concepts

4. Chain-of-custody certification tracks certified material:

  1. Only inside the forest
  2. Forest to final product
  3. Only at retail shops
  4. Only during shipping
Answer and working

B. Forest to final product

The correct answer is From forest to final product. Through every owner.

Forest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management · Chain-of-custody certification

5. A distinctive EUDR due diligence requirement compared with the EUTR is:

  1. Payment of import tariffs
  2. FSC certification of all wood
  3. Species DNA testing of each log
  4. Geolocation of production plots
Answer and working

D. Geolocation of production plots

Plot geolocation in the due diligence statement.

Forest Certification & Sustainable Forest Management · Legality verification and due diligence (EUDR, Lacey Act, FLEGT)

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