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IFS Forestry Papers 2004
IFS Forestry 2004
Paper-I
Section A
1. Answer any four of the following (answer should not exceed more than 150 words for each
question): (10 × 4 = 40)
a. What is the criteria to select number of clones and their deployment in plantation
forestry?
b. How willow cultivation is life line in cold desert areas of the country?
c. Describe storage behaviour of recalcitrant seeds and name seven tree species
producing seeds of this category.
d. Why do forest plantations fail?
e. Describe the storage methods of recalcitrant seeds and name seven tree species
which fall under this category.
f. Importance and method of tree introduction.
2. Answer the following questions
a. Discuss the term site quality and describe the basis of its classification (20).
b. What are different uses of vegetative propagation? Name the five different examples
of topophysis (20).
3. Answer the following questions
a. Describe briefly clear felling system with its merits and demerits (20).
b. Write the importance of mangrove forests and methods of rehabilitation of degraded
mangrove forests (20).
4. Describe the silviculture of any four species (10 × 4 = 40).
a. Gmelina arborea.
b. Cedrus deodara
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c. Santalum album
d. Populus spp.
e. Tectona grandis.
Section B
1. Answer any four of the following (Answer should not exceed more than 150 words for each
question): (10 × 4 = 40)
a. Describe the different methods of plus tree selection in uneven aged forests.
b. Explain about water pollution and methods of their control with main emphasis on
phytoremediation.
c. Suggest practical methods for the reclamation of saline and alkaline soils.
d. What do you mean by ethno botany, its importance and practice in nature
conservation by tribal people?
e. Write a note on Environmental Impact Assessment.
f. Why the provenance testing is prerequisite before taking genetic improvement of
any given species? How it can be done?
2. Answer the following questions
a. Describe the role of NGOs in JFM with special reference to biodiversity
conservation. Justify with suitable example (20).
b. What do you mean by shifting cultivation and improved fallows and its management
under agro forestry system (20)?
3. Answer the following questions
a. Describe the basis of land classification in brief for watershed management (20).
b. Explain the importance and different ways of carbon sequestration in terrestrial
ecosystem (20).
4. Write notes on any four of the following: (10 × 4 = 40)
a. Importance and types of Heritability. How it can be increased?
b. Specific combining ability and its utility in tree improvement.
c. Breeding value.
d. Acid rain.
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e. Hybrid vigour and its utility in tree breeding.
Paper-II
Section A
1. Attempt any four questions from the following (not more than 150 words for each): (10 × 4
= 40)
a. Describe the method for calculation of normal growing stock from yield table.
b. Write significance of enumeration map in a divisional working plan.
c. Explain relationship between sustained yield and normal forest.
d. Discuss advantages of remote sensing technique in Forestry.
e. Write procedure for preparation of general volume table.
2. Answer the following questions
a. What are the different methods of Plain Table Survey? Describe any one (20).
b. Explain form of a tree and discuss principle of Girder Theory (10).
c. What is biological diversity? Why Indian subcontinent is rich in biodiversity (10)?
3. Answer the following questions
a. Describe Biolley's check method of yield regulation in irregular forest (20)
b. Discuss general specification of cement mortar (10).
c. Explain superiority of remote sensing over ground survey (10).
4. Answer the following questions
a. Describe Austrian Assessment Method of yield regulation in regular forest (20).
b. What are the advantages and disadvantages of brick masonry work over stone
masonry work (10)?
c. Discuss the concept of Joint Forest Management and mention the advantages of
Joint Forest
Management over traditional forest management (10).
Section B
1. Attempt any four from the following (not more than 150 words for each) (10 × 4 = 40)
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a. Describe biotic components of an ecosystem.
b. Describe the process of typical succession in Xeric condition.
c. Discuss extraction of forest timber by means of aerial ropeways.
d. Describe concept and method of rotational grazing.
e. Discuss the types of fencing applied to protect forestry crops.
2. Answer the following questions
a. Discuss artificial and natural systems of classification of plant species (20).
b. Describe primary as well as derived forest fires (10).
c. Discuss types of lac crop harvested in India (10).
3. Answer the following questions
a. Compare and contrast National Forest Policy 1988 with that of 1952 (10).
b. Explain damping off diseases of forest nurseries and discuss its control method (10).
c. Describe the procedures of sales of forest produces (10).
4. Answer the following questions
a. What is Ethnobotany? How it helps in Indian systems of medicines (20)?
b. What is particle board? Mention common types of particle boards available in India
(10).
c. Describe natural defects of timber (10).
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