Range Forest Officer recruitment (state exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions and state forest departments (e.g. MPPSC, UKPSC, UPPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersRe-establishing tree cover and ecosystem function on degraded and hostile sites, including mangroves, sand dunes, ravines, saline land, mine spoils and cold deserts, and controlling invasive species.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 2 (afforestation on difficult sites) and Unit 8 (wastelands); IFoS Forestry Paper I Section A (mangrove and cold-desert silviculture); ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (wasteland management)
How our questions for Range Forest Officer recruitment spread across the units of Forest Restoration & Afforestation of Difficult Sites. Difficulty: 11 easy, 16 medium, 3 hard.
| Lateritic, rocky and dry sites | 5 | |
| Saline and alkaline soils | 3 | |
| Coastal sands and sand-dune fixation | 3 | |
| Ravines and gullies | 3 | |
| Wetlands and waterlogged sites | 3 | |
| Mine-spoil reclamation | 3 | |
| Invasive plant species and their control | 3 | |
| Assisted natural regeneration and framework-species methods | 3 | |
| Cold-desert afforestation | 2 | |
| Mangrove ecology and mangrove plantation | 1 | |
| Wastelands: extent, characteristics and reclamation | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Gypsum is added to sodic soils because it supplies:
D. Calcium for sodium
Calcium displaces exchangeable sodium.
The tree species most tolerant of highly sodic soils, though invasive, is:
C. Prosopis juliflora
Widely planted on sodic land.
Brushwood fences for dune stabilisation are placed:
D. Across the direction of the wind
They trap moving sand.
A crescent-shaped water harvesting basin opening uphill is called a:
A. Half-moon
Half-moon basins open uphill to catch runoff.
Check dams in gullies are spaced so that the top of one dam is level with:
C. Toe of the next dam
Head-to-toe spacing stabilises the whole gully bed.
On waterlogged sites, seedlings are often planted:
B. On raised mounds or ridges
Above the water table.
An aquatic invasive targeted in wetland restoration is:
A. Water hyacinth
Eichhornia crassipes.
The beetle Zygogramma bicolorata is a biological control agent of:
B. Parthenium
Mexican beetle released in India.
Assisted natural regeneration mainly works by:
C. Protecting regeneration
It accelerates succession.
Framework species are planted about 1.8 m apart in a square grid. Trees per hectare are about:
B. 3,086
10,000 / 1.8^2 = 3,086. 5,556 divides by 1.8 only once.
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