OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -Normal growing stock: It is the volume of stands in a forest with normal age classes or age gradations and a normal increment. In practice, this is taken to be the volume indicated in Yield Tables of each age-class.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition of terms: Growing stock. The living tree component of the standing volume. The standing volume refers to the volume of standing trees, living or dead, above-stump measured overbark to top (0 cm). It includes all trees with diameter over 0 cm at breast height (d.b.h., i.e. typically at 130 cm above stump).

Detailed explanation-3: -To estimate the growing stock at physiographic zone level, area under each stratum was first estimated. Thereafter, per ha figure of growing stock for each stratum was used to estimate the growing stock of the physiographic zone. This process was repeated for all the physiographic zones.