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Gunung Stong State Park Preliminary Management Plan
Photo 2.1: Dabong Railway Station
WWF-Malaysia/N.M. Maseri
2.4 Legal Status
GSSP is currently under the management of the Kuala Balah Forestry Sub-District of the
West Kelantan District of the State Forestry Department, based at Tanah Merah, though it is
located within the Kuala Krai District (or more precisely, the South Kuala Krai Sub-District,
with an office at Dabong).
GSSP is not yet formally gazetted as a protected area, and it is still a forest reserve. Gunung
Stong Tengah Forest Reserve was previously logged in the 1980s, and there have been no
logging activities since 1989. However, a logging concession for two compartments was
awarded in 2004. The State Forestry Department is in the process of demarcating the
boundary of GSSP (pers. comm. Abdullah Sani, Kelantan State Deputy Director of Forestry,
2005).
In Peninsular Malaysia, there are several models and precedents available for the
establishment of national and state parks using various legal instruments, including the
National Parks Act 1980, the National Parks (Johor) Corporation Enactment 1989 and the
Perak State Parks Enactment 2001, and through amending the National Forestry Act 1984 as
adopted by the State (as in the case of Perlis State Park). There is also a provision under the
National Land Code 1965 (Section 62), for the creation of reserved areas for public use.
Nevertheless, it has been decided that GSSP will be gazetted using the National Forestry Act
(Amendment) Enactment 2004 and, for all intents and purposes, management will closely
follow the Perlis State Park model.
2.5 Geology
The geology of GSSP is granite, part of the Migmatic Stong Complex, an injection complex
from the mixing of Palaeozoic Rocks with an intrusion from the Main Range Granite
(MacDonald, 1967, in Chu et al., 1982). The Stong Complex is composed of igneous rocks
that have undergone metamorphosis, forming 3 suits: the Berangkat Tonalite, the Kenerong
Leucogranite, and the Noring Granite. The Migmatic Stong Complex only has similarities
with the Benta Complex, Pahang (Komoo et al., 2001). The Stong Migmatic Complex is part
of the Central Zone granite that also occurs in Gua Musang, Jeli, Batang Merbau, formed
from the Late Triassic or later (Liew, 1983, in Komoo et al., 2001). In Dabong, some 10 km
away, are limestone hills that are part of the Gua Musang Limestone Aggregates. A
geological map of the GSSP area is included as Appendix 2.
In some parts, the Migmatic Stong Complex forms steep, razor-backed ridges that rise steeply
from the lowlands, with waterfalls along their flanks. The steep flanks are prone to landslides
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