State Forest Service — Assistant Conservator of Forests (state PSC exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions (e.g. TNPSC, MPPSC, UPPSC, HPPSC, KPSC, MPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersManaging grazing lands and grazing within forests: range ecology, carrying capacity, grazing systems and the restoration of degraded rangelands. Fodder crop production is in the Veterinary track (fodder-production-grassland).
In the exams: ICAR AIEEA-PG Group 09 (rangelands); Society for Range Management certification (USA); grazing-regulation topics in state forest service exams
State forest service (ACF, RFO, forester) examinations
Grazing in forests, its impacts and regulation, grazing rules and policy, fodder trees and lopping, and pastoral communities of the state.
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Rangeland & Grazing Management. Difficulty: 6 easy, 15 medium, 5 hard.
| Grazing in forests: impacts and regulation | 8 | |
| Pastoral communities and common property rangelands | 6 | |
| Rangelands of the world and their extent | 4 | |
| Fodder trees and lopping | 4 | |
| Grazing systems: continuous, rotational, deferred | 2 | |
| Carrying capacity and stocking rate | 1 | |
| Range improvement and reseeding | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The alpine meadows of Uttarakhand are locally called:
B. Bugyals
Sholas are montane forest patches; orans are sacred groves.
Seasonal movement of herds between summer alpine pastures and winter lowlands is:
B. Transhumance
Practised by Gaddis and Gujjars.
The most direct effect of heavy forest grazing on regeneration is:
C. Damage to seedlings
Browsing and trampling make regeneration fail.
Cutting grass and fodder in closed areas and carrying it to stall-fed animals is:
A. Cut-and-carry
Common under joint forest management.
Strict grazing bans without alternatives tend to:
D. Fail and create conflict
Alternatives such as fodder and better breeds are needed.
Leaf crude protein of many fodder trees is often in the range of roughly:
C. 12 to 20 percent
Higher than mature grass.
Hardin's 'Tragedy of the Commons' was published in:
C. 1968
Published in Science in 1968.
The Banni grasslands, used by Maldhari pastoralists, are in:
B. Kutch, Gujarat
Threatened by Prosopis juliflora.
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