Nepal Forestry Handbook. 3rd ed. 2016. illus. 478 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

This third edition updates & augments contents of previous editions considerably. There are new sections pertaining to silviculture of community forests and the economics of agroforestry. Especially data on forest resources and wildlife management have been revised.

Chapter headings:Country Background/ Geology/ Soils/ Forests of Nepal/ Silviculture/ Silvicultural Systems/ Forest Management/ Regeneration of Forests/ Forest Nurseries/ Plantation Forests/ Tending Operations/ Forest Fire/ Forest Inventory/ Forest Mensuration/ The Volume Table/ Biomass/ Growth and Yield/ Statistics/ Agroforestry/ Valuating Forests/ Non-wood Forest Products/ Fodder Tress/ Bio - Technlogy/ Tree Improvement/ Remote Sensing/ Global Warming and Climate Change/ Integrated Watershed Management/ Wildlife Management/ Miscellaneous (Wood as Fuel, Green Manure, Hedge Planting)/ Glossary of Technical Terms.

The management of Nepal's forest resources requires a detailed compendium of forest knowledge that is accessible to all forest workers, policy makers, researchers and forestry graduates.