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Forestry Optional Paper 1 Topics

P1 Unit 1. Silviculture General

P1 1.1 General Silvicultural Principles

P1 1.2 Nursery and Planting Techniques

P1 Unit 2. Silviculture Systems

P1 2.1 Silviculture Systems

P1 2.2 Management of Silviculture Systems

P1 Unit 3. Silviculture Mangrove and Cold desert

P1 3.1 Mangrove

P1 3.2 Cold desert

P1 Unit 4. Silviculture of Trees

P1 4.1 Silvicultural Research and Practices

P1 4.2 Silviculture of some of the economically important species in India

P1 Unit 5. Agroforestry, Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management and Tribology:

P1 5.1 Agroforestry

P1 5.2 Social/Urban Forestry

P1 5.3 JFM

P1 5.4 Tribology

P1 Unit 6. Forest Soils, Soil Conservation and Watershed management:

P1 6.1 Forests Soils

P1 6.2 Soil conservation

P1 6.3 Watershed Management

P1 Unit 7. Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity:

P1 7.1 Environment

P1 7.2 Biodiversity

P1 Unit 8. Tree Improvement and Seed Technology

P1 8.1 Tree Improvement

P1 8.2 Seed Technology

Forestry Optional Paper 2 Topics

P2 Unit 1. Forest Management and Management Systems

P2 1.1 Forest Management

P2 1.2 Forest Management Systems

P2 Unit 2. Forest Working Plan

P2 2.1 Forest Planning and Development

P2 2.2 Working Plans and Schemes

P2 Unit 3. Forest Mensuration and Remote Sensing

P2 3.1 Forest Mensuration

P2 3.2 Remote Sensing

P2 Unit 4. Surveying and Forest Engineering

P2 4.1 Forest surveying

P2 4.2 Forest Engineering

P2 Unit 5. Forest Ecology and Ethnobotany

P2 5.1 Forest Ecology

P2 5.2 Ethnobotany

P2 Unit 6. Forest Resources and Utilization

P2 6.1 Forest Harvesting

P2 6.2 Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)

P2 6.3 Anatomical structure of wood

P2 6.4 Wood Seasoning

P2 6.5 Composite wood

P2 6.6 Pulp-Paper and Rayon

P2 Unit 7. Forest Protection & Wildlife Biology

P2 7.1 Forest Protection

P2 7.2 Wildlife Biology

P2 Unit 8. Forest Economics and Legislation

P2 8.1 Forest Economics

P2 8.2 Forest Legislation

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