This document outlines Javed Iqbal's proposed revisions to the format of forest management plans (working plans) in Pakistan. It discusses the shortcomings of the traditional two-part format, which lacks justification for objectives and alternatives. The proposed new format has three parts: Part I describes the forest area and existing conditions. Part II evaluates alternative objectives, species, silvicultural systems, and other choices. Part III prescribes the management plan, including working circles, programs, protection, utilization, infrastructure, administration, records, and finances.

1. FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN
By
JAVED IQBAL
Lecturer in Forestry
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY

2. Forest Working Plan
A forest working plan has been defined as a written instruments of forest management “aiming at continuity of policy and action, and both prescribing and controlling basic operation in a forest estate over a period of year.
•Working plan is the principal document at forest level.
•Brings all the facts
•To attained the objectives
•Action programme
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal
PhD Scholar

3. Reasons behind the working plan
•Diversity of forest
•Enumeration of goals for forest management
•Continuity of policy
•Selection of alternative
•Coordination
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal
PhD Scholar

4. Working Plan (Part-I)
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
I. The tract dealt with
II. The Forest
III. Utilization of the produce
IV. Staff and Labour supply
V. Past System of management
VI. Statistics of growth and yield
Physiography, Climate, Legal position
Description of growing stock and of injuries to which it is liable
Requirements of the local population, markets for the products from the forest, methods of exploitation and their cost
Present establishment and availability of lobour
Assessment of the extent to which the goals of past working plans have been achieved, out-turn of products, revenue and expenditure in the previous years
Calculation of increment, and volume and yield tables
Javed Iqbal
PhD Scholar

5. Working Plan (Part-II)
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
I. Basic of Proposal
II. Separate chapters for working plans of individual working circle
IV. Miscellaneous regulations
V. Establishment and labour
VI. Financial forecast
VII. Control and maintenance of records
Objectives, Method of treatment, division into working circles, analysis and valuation of the crop, period of the plan
Constitution of the working circles, division into felling series and block and compartments, objectives, analysis of growing stock, choice of species etc
Prescription common to all working circle, Petty fellings, minor forest produce, boundaries maintenance etc
Staff and labour required for work
Itemization of annual revenue and expenditure for the plan period
Conformity to the prescription of working plan, compartment history file and journal etc.
VIII. Summary of prescription and suggestions of the working plan
Javed Iqbal
PhD Scholar

6. Basic Frame work of Forest Working Plan
•Pakistani working plan is divided into two parts
•Part-I deals with the summary of fact on which the proposals are based
•Part-II with future management discussed and prescribed
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

7. Shortcomings of traditional format for the working plan
According to Johnston, Grayson and Bradley, the planning process may be regarded as comprising the following major components
1.Collection and organization of Data
2.Choice of objectives and testing of the different alternative courses of attaining them to select the most efficient.
3.Setting out the prescriptions to be followed in the form of a plan for a specific numbers of years.
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

8. Shortcomings of traditional format for the working plan
•Lack a key element of the planning process
•Give a sketchy treatment to justifying the selection of objectives and the testing of different alternative courses of action available to attain them
•Several Possible rotation lengths
•Exploitable size
•Silviculture treatments
•Choice of species etc
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

9. Suggested format for the working plan report
Part-I
Chapter 1
Situation, History, and legal status
Name and situation
Area and its situation
Boundaries
General history
Lagal Position
Rights and concessions
Roads, paths and buildings
Chapter 2 (Site factor)
•Site factors
•Climate
•Physiography
•Geology
•Soil
•Human population
•Livesstock population
•Causes of injury
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

10. Suggested format for the working plan report
Part-I
Chapter 3
•The growing stock
•General description
•Quality classes
•Quantitative assessment
•Age/Size class distribution
Increment
Chapter 4
•Past Management and its results
•Summary of past management
•Effect on stocking
•Effect on age/Size-class distribution
•Effect on state of regeneration
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

11. Suggested format for the working plan report
Part-I
Chapter 5
•Administration
•Administrative organization
•Establishment and pay scales
•Labour and wages
•Financial results of the plan under revision
Chapter 6
•Economics and Utilization
•Demand and supply of products and services
•Market prices of forest products
•Costs of various forest operations
•Method of Sale, conversion, extraction and transportation.
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

12. Suggested format for the working plan report
Part-II (Choice of Alternative)
Chapter 1 Choice of objectives and constitution of working plan
Chapter 2 Choice of species for different sites
Chapter 3 Selection of the Silvicultural system
Chapter 4 Rotation / exploitable size
Chapter 5 The optimum stocking level
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar

13. Suggested format for the working plan report
Part-III
(Prescriptions for the period of the plan)
Chapter 1 Working circle
Chapter 2 Action of programme
Chapter ‘i’ Working Circle
Chapter ‘j’ Protection
Chapter ‘k’ Utilization
Chapter ‘l’ Road, Path, Building and boundaries
Chapter ‘m’ Administration
Chapter ‘n’ Control and maintenance of record
Chapter ‘o’ Financial results of the management prescribed
SHAHEED BENAZIR BHUTTO UNIVERSITY, SHERINGAL DIR UPPER PAKISTAN
FORESTER’S
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY
Javed Iqbal PhD Scholar