Government of Nepal had introduced community forestry program since 3 and half decades and achieved to hand over the patches of forests to more than 18000 forest user groups. Almost, the forest in each VDCs are hand over as community forests. The major activities implied in the CF are protection and conservation of the forest to ensure the greenery and the stock of the forest. The rest of the forest at community access is the national forest governed by governmental authorities such as Department of forest. The forest stocks are overwhelmingly high and there is scope of getting forest products for the community basic requirements. The recent devastating earthquake hit in Nepal put the pressure on land by degrading the lands as well as damaging the local infrastructure including private buildings, small houses, animal sheds. This has increased the local demand of forest resources to reconstruct the buildings. The current discussion are being increased to get permission to cut the forest of Chure Environment Conservation Area however that option is not feasible in terms of product delivery as well as environmental perspective. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the resources available in the forests in locality taking the geospatial approach as the method of analysis. The study basically explored the resource available at local level which has spatial distributions differently at different geographic areas in Gorkha district where the epicenter lied. It will also see the cost and environmental significance of the resource delivery based on the transportation and other cost involved.Study tried to link the devastation due to earthquake, demand generated on forest resources and the resource availability in the locality. The geospatial approach has been adopted to see the potential delivery of the resources in the district. The analysis included the data available at different aspects such as forest coverage, distribution of the community forestry intervention in local administrative unit, prescription of district level timber extraction in CFs and the transportation opportunity in the district and vicinity villages. The study concludes with the recommendation to the resource managers and policy makers not to make the earthquake as a granted to cut the forest trees somewhere from the distant forest stand. The local forest in the vicinity can supply sufficient timber.
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