Incorporating Stakeholder Perceptions in Participatory Forest

Reserve Forests
Recorded Forest Area
Sarvajanik Sampada
Scrub
Scheduled Areas
Shashwat pattas
Unclassified Forest
Vriksh
Village Forest
Committee
Van upaj
Vyapar Viniyam
Working Plan
Working Circle
Zilla Parishad
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having limited degree of protection. In Protected Forests all
activities are permitted unless prohibited
An area notified under the provisions of Indian Forest Act
having full degree of protection. In Reserved Forests all
activities are prohibited unless permitted.
All lands statutorily notified as forest, though they may not
necessarily bear tree cover.
Public property.
All lands with poor tree growth mainly of small or stunted
trees having canopy density less than 10 percent.
Tribal Areas so declared under Art 244 (1) of the Constitution
of India.
Perpetual leases
An area recorded as forest but not included in Reserved or
Protected Forest categories.
Tree.
A committee constituted for the forest areas, which have
degraded and needs to be rejuvenated through soil moisture
conservation and plantation.
Forest produce
Regulation of Trade
A written scheme of management of forests, prepared by the
Forest Department.
A forest area (forming whole or part of a working plan area)
organized with a particular objective and under one
silvicultural system and one set of working plan prescriptions.
In certain circumstances working circles may overlap.
Panchayati Raj Institution at the District level.
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