Range Forest Officer recruitment Working Plans & Forest Management Planning: practice questions

1 · Purpose and history of working plans · easy

The main purpose of a working plan is to:

1. Record the daily attendance and duties of forest guards in each beat of the range
2. Secure continuity of policy and action in managing a forest
3. List the timber merchants licensed to buy produce from the division each year
4. Fix the boundaries of reserved forests under the forest settlement procedure

2 · Purpose and history of working plans · easy

In India, working plans are normally prepared for a period of:

1. One year, renewed every season
2. Fifty years, matching a rotation
3. Three years, matching a budget cycle
4. Ten years

3 · Division of the forest: working circles, felling series, compartments · medium

An overlapping working circle is constituted for:

1. An area claimed by two forest divisions whose boundary is disputed
2. Compartments that are to be clear felled twice within the same rotation
3. A resource that occurs across other working circles, such as bamboo or NTFPs
4. Forests on the border between two states, managed jointly by both state departments

4 · Stock mapping and growing-stock assessment · medium

A patch of forest has a canopy density of 35%. Under the Forest Survey of India classes it is:

1. Moderately dense forest
2. Very dense forest
3. Open forest
4. Scrub

5 · Stock mapping and growing-stock assessment · hard

The results of growing-stock enumeration are presented in a working plan mainly as:

1. A list of compartments ranked by distance from the divisional office
2. Photographs of the largest trees in each compartment
3. A single figure for the whole state's forest
4. Stand and stock tables by species and diameter class

6 · Prescriptions for silviculture, felling and regeneration · easy

Part I of a working plan in the South Asian format is the:

1. Detailed prescriptions for every working circle
2. Summary of facts on which the proposals are based
3. Financial forecast for the plan period
4. Register of deviations sanctioned during the plan

7 · Prescriptions for silviculture, felling and regeneration · easy

Where in a working plan are the detailed prescriptions for each working circle found?

1. Part I, summary of facts on which proposals are based
2. The preliminary working-plan report only
3. The compartment history files only
4. Part II, future management discussed and prescribed

8 · Working-plan codes and national guidelines · easy

Which is a requirement of modern Indian working-plan codes?

1. A statistically designed inventory with geo-referenced plots
2. Total enumeration of every tree in the division at each revision
3. Exclusion of all non-timber forest products from the plan
4. Exclusion of joint forest management areas from the plan

9 · Microplans for community and joint forest management · easy

Joint forest management in India was launched nationally by a circular issued in:

1. 1927
2. 1952
3. 1990
4. 2006

10 · Preliminary working-plan report and field data collection · medium

Who is normally appointed to prepare a working plan in the Indian system?

1. The range forest officer of the range with the largest forest area
2. A committee of village elders chosen by the gram sabha alone
3. A working-plan officer heading a working-plan division
4. The district collector, assisted by the revenue department staff