PD 705 Flashcards
This decree shall be known as the “Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines.”
PD 705
Lands with a slope of __% and over are NOT alienable and disposable
18%
Forest lands with a slope __% and over are NOT grazing lands
50%
Lands with a slope of 18% and over that were classified as A&D may be reverted to forest lands unless it is already titled or applied for not less than __ yrs (OCENO) and qualified for free patent (acc to the Public Land Act)
30 yrs
The following lands, even if they are below eighteen per cent (18%) in slope, are needed for forest purposes, and may not, therefore, be classified as alienable and disposable land, to wit:
(a) Areas less than 250 has. that are not contiguous with A&D lands
(b) Isolated patches of forest at least 5 has. that protect springs for public use
(c) Reforested areas
(d) 20 m. strips of land along the edge of rivers of at least 5 m. wide
(e) Strips of mangrove at least 20 m. wide along water bodies and strips of land at least twenty (20) meters wide facing lakes
4. Areas within forest concessions which are timbered or have good residual stocking to support an existing, or approved to be established, wood processing plant;
5. Ridge tops and plateaus regardless of size found within, or surrounded wholly or partly by, forest lands where headwaters emanate;
6. Appropriately located road-rights-or-way
9. Areas needed for other purposes, such as national parks, national historical sites, game refuges and wildlife sanctuaries, forest station sites, and others of public interest; and
10. Areas previously proclaimed by the President as forest reserves, national parks, game refuge, bird sanctuaries, national shrines, national historic sites:
All boundaries between permanent forests and alienable and disposable lands shall be clearly marked and maintained on the ground, with infrastructure or roads, or concrete monuments at intervals of ___ in accordance with established procedures and standards, or any other visible and practicable signs to insure protection of the forest.
not more than five hundred (500) meters
The ___ may establish within any lands of the public domain, forest reserve and forest reservation for the national park system, for preservation as critical watersheds, or FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSES, and modify boundaries of existing ones
President of the Philippines
The ___ may reserve and establish any portion of the public forest or forest reserve as site or experimental forest for use of the Forest Research Institute.
Department Head
Section 27. Duration of license agreement or license to harvest timber in forest lands. The maximum period of any privilege to harvest timber is ___ years, renewable for a period, not exceeding ___ years, necessary to utilize all the remaining commercial quantity or harvestable timber either from the unlogged or logged-over area.
25 yrs; 25 yrs
Section 28. Size of forest concessions.
The size of the forest lands which may be the subject of timber utilization shall be limited to that which a person may effectively utilize and develop for a period of __ years
50 yrs
maximum area for forest concession
none
Section 33. Forest lands to be reforested. The following shall be reforested and covered with suitable and sufficient trees, to wit:
(a) Bare or grass-covered tracts of forest lands with at least fifty per cent (50%) slope;
(b) Bare or grass-covered tracts of forest lands with less than fifty per cent (50%) slope, but with soil so highly erodible as to make grass cover inadequate for soil erosion control;
(c) Brushlands or tracts of forest lands generally covered with brush, which need to be developed to increase their productivity;
(d) Open tracts of forest lands with slopes or gradients generally exceeding fifty per cent (50%), interspersed with patches of forest each of which is less than two hundred fifty (250) hectares in area;
(e) Denuded or inadequately-timbered areas proclaimed by the President as forest reserves and reservations as critical watersheds, national parks, game refuge, bird sanctuaries, national shrines, national historic sites;
(f) Inadequately-stocked forest lands within forest concessions;
(g) Portions of areas covered by pasture leases or permits having a slope of at least fifty per cent (50%); and
(h) River banks, easements, road rights-of-ways, deltas, swamps, former river beds, and beaches.
Section 34. Industrial Tree Plantations and Tree Farms.
A lease for a period of ___ years, renewable for another period not exceeding ___ years, for the establishment of an industrial tree plantation or a tree farm
25 yrs; 25 yrs
minimum area of industrial tree plantation for lease
1000 has
minimum area of tree farm for lease
100 has
