MANAGEMENT PLAN OF PRIVATE FOREST AREAS CLOSED UNDER SEC. 4 & 5 OF PUNJAB LAND PRESERVATION ACT-1900 (2007-2008 To 2016-17) Hoshiarpur Forest Division Prepared by:- Divisional Forest Officer, Hoshiarpur Forest Division, Hoshiarpur. Important Abbreviations:- BH : Breast Height CCF : Chief Conservator of Forests . DFO : Divisional Forest Officer FCA : Forest Conservation Act FPC : Forest Protection Committee. GBH : Girth at Breast Height MoEF : Ministry of Environment and Forest PCCF : Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. PLPA : Punjab Land Preservation Act. VFC : Village Forest Committee JFMC : Joint Forest Management Committee Acknowledgements This Management Plan has been prepared with the active cooperation of the officers and staff of Hoshiarpur Forest Division who made substantial efforts to provide the inputs required for the preparation of this Management Plan . Special thanks are due to Sh. B.C.Bala IFS P.C.C.F Punjab, Sh. H.S. Gujral IFS Addl. PCCF (Dev.) Punjab, Sh. R.K. Luna IFS CCF Working Plan and M & E Punjab, Sh Jitendra Sharma I.F.S, C.C.F (Hills) and Sh. Harbhajan Singh I.F.S , C.F. Shivalik for their valuable guidance through out the preparation of this Management Plan . Thanks are also due to Sh. Vishal Chauhan IFS, Sh. Sarabjit Singh Cheema PFS and Sh. Lakhwinder Singh Radhawa PFS Dy. DFO Hoshiarpur for full support in preparation of the Management Plan. Sewa Singh IFS Divisional Forest Officer Hoshiarpur 1 INDEX Para SUBJECT Page No No CHAPTER-I 2 The tract dealt with 1.1 Name & Situation 3 1.2 Configuration of the ground 3 1.2.1 Area under Management Plan & Map 4 1.3 Geology, Rock & Soil 4 1.4 Climate 5 1.5 Water Supply 7 1.6 Distribution of Area 8 1.7 Legal Status 9 1.8 Provisions of section 4 & 5 of PLPA 10 CHAPTER – II 12 Flora and Fauna 2.1 General description of the growing stock 13 2.2 Past felling 13 2.3 Scrub Forest in Hills 13 2.4 Khair – Sisoo Forest 14 2.5 Chil Forest 15 2.6 Status of Natural Regeneration 15 2.7 Injuries to which crops is liable 15 2.8 General descriptions of Fauna found in the forests 16 2.9 Injuries to which Fauna is liable and its protection 17 2.10 Habitat Destruction 18 2.11 Fire Protection 18 CHAPTER- III 19 Utilization of the Produce 3.1 Agricultural customs & wants of the people 20 3.2 Market & Marketable Produce 20 3.3 Line of export 20 3.4 Method of exploitation & their cost 21 3.5 Past and current prices of wood products 21 3.6 Wood-Based Industry regulation rules 21 CHAPTER – IV 22 General History of the Forests 4.1 General History of the Forests. 23 4.2 Past system of Management and their results. 24 4.3 Special works of Improvement taken during the earlier 26 Management Plans CHAPTER-V 27 Objectives, Management Strategy & proposals 5.1 Objectives of management 28 5.2 Approach for treatment of areas closed under section 4 & 5 of the 28 PLPA 1900 5.2.1 Soil Conservation 28 5.2.2 Natural Regeneration 29 5.2.3 Artificial regeneration 29 5.2.4 NTFP 30 5.3. Protection Measures 30 5.4 Management Policy & procedures 30 5.4.1 Notifications under section 4 & 5 of PLPA 1900 & rationale for 31 revised felling policy & ancillary provisions 5.4.2 Felling Policy 32 5.4.3 Procedure for issuing felling permits from Non-Cultivated areas 35 5.4.4 Marking Rules for Non-Cultivated area 37 5.4.5 Marking Rule for cultivated area 38 5.4.6 Bamboo 39 5.4.7 Felling Rules 39 5.4.8 Guidelines for ground story management and lantana management 41 5.5 Other proposals in cultivated/habitation & other Govt. institutional 43 lands 5.6 Other proposals for private areas under forest 44 5.7 Promotion of Eco-tourism 45 5.8 Miscellaneous regulations 46 5.8.1 Katha Making 46 5.8.2 Petty fellings & emergent cleanings 46 5.8.3 Procedure for permission to cut timber/fuel wood for domestic use 46 5.8.4 Resin Extraction 47 5.8.5 Grant of permission to make charcoal from dead/dry chil trees or 48 cut material of the chil trees permitted vide permit whose transportation is difficult. 5.9 Period of Management Plan 48 CHAPTER- VI 49 Joint Forest Management & Activities done in JFM 6.1 Joint Forest Management Plan- Detail of Village Forest 50 committees etc. 6.2 Present Forestry Activity on the Village land. 50 6.3 Formation of Self Help Groups 50 CHAPTER- VII 52 Scope of Wild Life Conservation 7.1 Scope of Wild Life Conservation 53 7.2 Reduction in man & animal conflict 53 7.3 Takhni-Rehmapur Wildlife Santuary in Hoshiarpur Wildlife 53 Division ANNEXURES 54 Annexure I to Annexure X 1 Annexure-I 55-56 2 Annexure-II 57-60 3 Annexure-III 61-63 4 Annexure-IV 64-66 5 Annexure-V 67-70 6 Annexure –VI 71-73 7 Annexure-VII 74-76 8 Annexure- VIII 77-93 9 Annexure IX 94-116 10 Annexure X 117-121 Chapter-I The tract dealt with 2 Chapter- I The tract dealt with 1.1: Name and situation: The tract dealt with in this Management Plan falls under the territorial Forest Division of Hoshiarpur. Hoshiarpur Division lies between longitude east 750 50‟ and 31050‟ north. Following survey sheets cover the area concerning this Management Plan of Hoshiarpur Forest Division. S.No Scale Surveysheet No 1 1:2,50,000 & 44M, 53A & 53B 4” = 1 mile 2 1:50,000 & 44M/6,9,10,11,13,14,15,16 53A/2,3,4,7,8,12, 53B/1,5,9 1” =1 mile This Management plan covers the sub mountainous area of 50 villages as described in para no.1.6. Hoshiarpur Forest Division is a part of Hoshiarpur district and covers the whole of Hoshiarpur and a part of Dasuya Civil Sub division. The altitude range of this Forest Division is 311.5 m to 716.52 m. The boundary of Hoshiarpur Forest Division runs along Una Forest Division of Himachal pradesh on one side and Dasuya , Jalandhar and Garshankar Forest Divisions of Punjab on other sides of Hoshiarpur. There is also one division of Wild Life with headquarters at Hoshiarpur and this covers the entire district of Hoshiarpur. 1.2: Configuration of the Ground: Basically the whole area forms part of the Shivalik hills and is a sub-mountainous tract. A large number of Hilly torrents and small rivulets (choes) garland the area ultimately draining into river Sutlej and r iver Beas. The slopes along the main ridges are 3 quite steep but it is quite gentle in the riverain tract where the topography is almost plain. The Hoshiarpur Forest Division spans three macro watersheds. 1.2.1 Area under Management Plan & Map The area of this Management Plan falls in number of watersheds. Total forest area dealt with is 44278 hectare, which is closed under section 4 & 5 of Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900. 1.3: Geology of Rocks and Soil: As far as geology is concerned the rocks are classified into two broad belts - an outer belt and an inner belt, formed respectively of the upper tertiary and lower tertiary periods. The characteristic features are: Upper Shivalik: Soft Earths, Clays & Boulders, Conglomerates. Middle Shivalik: Massive sand rock & Clay beds. Lower Shivalik: Grey Micaceous sand stones and unfossiliferous slabs. On the basis of morphological, physico-chemical and chemical studies of the soil profile from the different meteorological divisions, Sharma (1953) classified the soils into the world group Zone No.2. The Soil Profile of virgin waste land of these areas consists of following zonal descriptions: Depth Description (Inches) 0-6 Dark brown, silty clay loam, no effervescence with 4 HCl , pH approx.7. 6-42 Brown clay compact, no effervescence with HCI, pH same as above. 42-66 Same as above. 66-92 Same as above, but grey spots are found sporadically. 91-108 Grey loose fine, no effervescence with HCl, pH approx. 6.5. 108-120 Dark brown, clay loam compact, no effervescence with HCl, pH same as above. Profile analysis reveals that soil is clayey with large preponderance of silt fraction and the soils are siliceous in nature. The amount of silica sesquioxide increases with depth while Calcium Carbonate is absent. The clay is kaeolinetic mixed with hydrous mica and montmorillonetic clay minerals in the bottom layer. These soils have been designated as transitional soils of alluvial origin. The hilly areas have a slope varying from 10 to 50 percent or even more at few places. In the hills and foothills, the soil is almost pure sand or clay mixed with coarse ingredients of pebbles and gravel. In the bela areas, the soil is comprised of coarse sand or sandy loam. In mand areas the top layer is almost invariably of silt loam with comparatively fine sand underneath. The soils are generally shallow in hills and foothills and quite deep in the plains. They are generally well drained. Soil is mostly poor in nitrogen and organic matter 1.4: Climate: In mountainous and sub-mountainous zone temperature and other climatic factors are greatly altered due to altitudinal variation. The climate of the area is described as semi-arid. Most of the rainfall is received during monsoon from July to middle of September, while rains are few during January-February. Average annual rainfall as per the recent data varies from 945.4 mm to 1242 mm.