Author(s):

Sandeep Chaurasia and Hemant Kumar

Abstract: The growing stock analysis of a forest helps in estimation of biomass and total assets of any forest areas. Present study was carried out during 2017-18 in Kushmi Sal Forest near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The whole forest is a best example of plantation forest mainly dominated by Shorea robusta and Tectona grandis with other associate species like Syzygium cumini, Terminalia arjuna, Albizia lebbeck, Dalbergia sissoo, Eucalyptus sp., Madhuca indica, Azadirachta indica, and Bombax ceiba in certain part in patches or in scattered form. Present research is an attempt in this direction to quantify the height class wise and diameter class wise growing stock of Kushmi forest. The total area of Kushmi forest is 3207.10 ha (Tilkonia forest range) comprises total number of forest tree 580480. The maximum number of tree was found of species Shorea robusta (402560) followed by Tectona grandis (80640) whereas the least trees species was found to be Bombax ceiba (5052). The height of different species is ranged between 8-45 meters while diameter of the different species ranged between 0.10-2.10 m. Majority of the stock have diameter in the range of 60 to 180 cm. Maximum numbers (173329) of tree belongs to diameter range 90-120 cm followed bydiameter range 60-90 cm while minimum numbers (4480) of stock have diameter range less than 30 cm. Comparatively high diameter trees belong to Madhuca indica, Tectona grandis, Shorea robusta, Syzygium cumini and Bombax cieba while short height recorded in, Azadirachta indica, Albizia lebbeck, Eucalyptus sp., Dalbergia sissoo and Terminalia arjuna.

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