Scientific Forestry

Q. Identify the person. He became the first Inspector General of Forests in India. He helped the British formulate the Indian Forest Act of 1865.

1. Dietrich Brandis
2. George Nathaniel Curzon
3. Sir John Lawrence
4. George Robinson

Q.

Who was the first inspector general of forest in India?

Q. How did the Forest department enforce scientific forestry in India?

1. Forest officials estimated the area under different types of trees in the natural forests.
2. Forest officials created a working plan to determine the portions of forests to be cut down.
3. Forest officials prioritised the plantation of food crops over cash crops.
4. Forest officials replanted the cleared area, so that the trees or plants could be grown and cut down again, once they reached maturity.

Q. Based on the statements given below, select the most suitable option.
Statement 1: Scientific Forestry is systematic planting of trees that have commercial value.
Statement 2: Dietrich Brandis, a German expert, set up the Indian Forest Service in India in the year 1864.

1. Only statement 2 is correct.
2. Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.
3. Both statements 1 and 2 are correct
4. Only statement 1 is correct.

Q. After the 1878 amendment of the Indian Forest Act, which of the following is not a forest category?

1. Protected Forests
2. Reserved Forests
3. Village Forests
4. Unreserved Forests

Q. What is ‘Scientific Forestry’? How it affected the lives of people in colonial India.

Q. Villagers were allowed to gather resources from forests that were under the category.

1. protected
2. village
3. reserved
4. unprotected

Q. Which of the following is/are the measure(s) taken by the forest department to enforce scientific forestry in India?

1. Forest officials estimated the area under different types of trees in the natural forests.
2. Forest officials created a working plan to determine the portions of forests to be cut down.
3. Forest officials prioritised the plantation of food crops over cash crops.
4. Forest officials replanted the cleared area, so that the trees or plants could be grown and cut down again, once they reached maturity.

Q. Who was Dietrich Brandis?

Q. After the 1878 amendment of the Indian Forest Act, which of the following is not a forest category?

1. Reserved Forests
2. Protected Forests
3. Village Forests
4. Unreserved Forests

Q. The Indian Forest Service was set up in which year?

1. 1879
2. 1864
3. 1800
4. 1860

Q. The amendment to the Forest Act in 1878 divided forests into how many categories?

1. Four
2. Two
3. Three
4. Five

Q. Based on the statements given below, select the most suitable option:
Statement 1: Scientific forestry is systematic planting of trees that have commercial value.
Statement 2: Dietrich Brandis, a German expert, set up the Indian Forest Service in India in the year 1864.

1. Both statements 1 and 2 are correct
2. Only statement 1 is correct.
3. Only statement 2 is correct.
4. Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.

Q. Arrange the following steps that were carried out for scientific forestry in the correct order.

1. Felling trees
2. Surveying forest
3. Forest Management
4. Replanting

Q. 'X' was involved with forests and its resources. 'X' also pioneered the research and application of a certain type of practice which garnered wide popularity in British India.
Who is 'X'?

1. Dietrich Brandis
2. Amrita Devi Bishnoi
3. Cyril Beeson
4. Hugh Cleghorn

Q. The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in which of the following places?

1. Bombay
2. Dehradun
3. Madras
4. Lucknow

Q. Arrange the following steps that were carried out for scientific forestry in the correct order.

1. Felling trees
2. Surveying forest
3. Forest Management
4. Replanting

Q.

1. Which one of the following categories of forests is considered as the best on the

basis of their utility?a) Reserved forests.b) Protected forests.c) Village forests.d) Community forests.