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Question 1

Refers to a forest land designated for the protection of game animals, birds and fish and closed to hunting and fishing in order that the excess population may flow and restock surrounding areas.

Answer 1

Game Refuge or bird sanctuary
PD 705. Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines

Question 2

Drainage area of a river system supporting existing and proposed hydro-electric power and irrigation works needing immediate rehabilitation as it is being subjected to a fast denudation causing accelerated erosion and destructive floods. It is closed from logging until it is fully rehabilitated.

Answer 2

Critical Watershed

Question 3

Systematic removal of the mature, over-mature and defective trees in such manner as to leave adequate number and volume of healthy residual trees of the desired species necessary to assure a future crop of timber, and forest cover for the protection and conservation of soil and water.

Answer 3

Selective Logging

Question 4

Duration of license agreement or license to harvest timber in forest lands

Answer 4

shall be fixed and determined in accordance with the annual allowance cut therein, the established cutting cycle thereof, the yield capacity of harvestable timber, and the capacity of healthy residuals for a second growth.

Question 5

Maximum period of any privilege to harvest timber

Answer 5

25 years, renewable for a period, not exceeding 25 years, necessary to utilize all the remaining commercial quantity or harvestable timber either from the unlogged or logged-over area.