Churia Forests of Nepal

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Previous forest inventories. 3.  Methodology. 4. Technical challenges and limitations. 5. Results. References. Annexes.

From the Foreword: In Nepal, the first national level forest inventory (NFI) was conducted in the early sixties by the then Forest Resources Survey Office under the department of Forests with the technical and financial support from the USAID. Similarly the second NFI was accomplished by the Department of Forest Research and Survey (DFRS) in the nineties with the technical and financial support from the Government of Finland (GoF). Now, the third NFI is in progress with the support of the GoF. Undertaken jointly by the DFRS and the FRA Nepal Project (2010-2014). The current work is being conducted on the basis of the five physiographic regions viz, the Terai, the Churia, the Middle-hills, the High Mountains and the High Himal.