Key Terms and Definitions of Forestry for Indian Forest Service Exam-
To understand further concepts of forstery one must be familiar with following terms and their definitions.
An area set aside for the production of timber & other forest produce or maintained under woody vegetation for certain indirect benefit that it provides.
Forestry:-
Theory & practices of all that constitute the creation, conservation & scientific management of forest & utilization of their resourses.
Silviculture:-
Branch of forestry which deals with establishment, development, care & reproduction of stands of timber.
Forest management:-
Practical application of the scientific,technical and economical principle of forestry.
Forest Mensuration:-
Branch of forestry which deals with the determination of dimensions, form, volume, height, age, increment, space etc of single tree and also entire forest stand.
Forest Surveying:-
Branch of forestry which deals with the delineation of the form, extent, postion etc of a track of a land by using linear and/or angular measurement.
Forest Economics:-
Branch of forestry which deals with those aspects of forestry that deal with the forest as a productive asset, subject to economic law.
Silvicultural System:-
Method of silvicultural procedure worked out in accordance with accepted sets of silviculturtal principles, by which crop constituting forest are tended, harvested and replkaced by new crop of distinctive form.
Farm Forestry:-
Practice of forstry in all its aspect on farm and village land, genrally more or less integreted with other farm operations.
Forest Working Plan:-
It is a written scheme of management aiming at continuity of policy and action and controlling the treatment of a forest.
