FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN B.P.S. – 17,
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1988
Maximum Marks: 100 Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Note: Answer any FIVE questions. Each question carries 20 marks.
1 Describe the OCcurrence, environmental conditions, compositions, management and economic importance of any one of the following:
Moist Temperate Forest
Or
Dry Temperate Forests
Or
Revering Forests of Sind.
2. How would you regenerate the following types of forests: Fir forests Juniper forests, Revering forests in Sindh and Punjab?
3 Write a cogent essay on the future of irrigated forest plantations in the Twenty First Century. What more appropriate system can take place?
4 What is the Forest Policy of Pakistan? What improvements would you suggest and why?
5 How would you organise Watershed and Range Management in any part of Pakistan?
6 How would you manage wild-lands with less than 8 inches annual precipitation?
7. Define the following and give their significance in Forestry (each carries 2 marks)
1. Forest Management 2. Forest Inventory 3. Yield Tables 4. Volume Tables 5. Selection System 6. Locality factors 7. Micro-climate 8. Saline and alkali soils 9.Uniform system 10. Social Forestry