Forestry CSS Paper 1988

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

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