Keywords
Shorea robusta
forest management
natural regeneration
soil
How to Cite
Abstract
This paper reviews problems and issues related to management options for the lowland (terai) forests of Nepal. Two types of sal forest (Shorea robusta) are found in the country: terai forests and hill forests. Sal is the dominant tree species of the terai forests, where it constitutes about 45% of total wood volume. In the hills, however, sal is only a minor species by volume. Significant loss of this species throughout southern Nepal is having a profound social and economic impact on the area. Natural regeneration of sal in Nepal has been observed but only under undisturbed conditions. Since local people are exploiting most sal forests, it is unlikely that the species will be able to withstand the current pressure being exerted by increasing populations. Consequently some means of production forest management needs to be employed. This paper discusses the current situation and offers suggestions for managing and conserving the terai forests.
Open Access and Copyright Notice
Selbyana is committed to real and immediate open access for academic work. All of Selbyana's articles and reviews are free to access immediately upon publication. There are no author charges (APCs) prior to publication, and no charges for readers to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use. To facilitate this, Selbyana depends on the financial backing of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, the hard work and dedication of its editorial team and advisory board, and the continuing support of its network of peer reviewers and partner institutions.
Authors are free to choose which open license they would like to use for their work. Our default license is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). While Selbyana’s articles can be copied by anyone for noncommercial purposes if proper credit is given, all materials are published under an open-access license with authors retaining full and permanent ownership of their work. The author grants Selbyana a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish the work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes to achieve broader impact and visibility.
Authors are responsible for and required to ascertain that they are in possession of image rights for any and all photographs, illustrations, and figures included in their work or to obtain publication or reproduction rights from the rights holders. Contents of the journal will be registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals and similar repositories. Authors are encouraged to store their work elsewhere, for instance in institutional repositories or personal websites, including commercial sites such as academia.edu, to increase circulation (see The Effects of Open Access).