Abstracto

Study for Tree Enumeration of Attarsumba Range, Gandhinagar Forest Division, India

Yogesh B Patel, Ruby G Patel and H A Pandya

It was during late-sixty and early seventies that the forest area of the state was sampled for knowing the growing stock. It was conducted by pre-investment survey now known as forest survey of India, Dehradun, India to know how much supply of raw material is possible from forest resources. Gandhinagar Forest Division has 48 villages and area of 11,263.31 hectare. It was surveyed covering the entire area in 20 meter wide strips laid parallel to each other with 200 m distance from one another. Strip enumeration methodology was thus adopted. Range wise details enumeration revealed that in Attarsumba range is rich range with 12,35,650 trees and available tree species are 78.