Section UPSC Syllabus topics Manikandan Common to What may be done Before Specific remarks about chapter

chapters environment Pre/CSM

Syllabus (leave scientific names, <20hrs )

P1A 1. Silviculture ‐ General 1 No Base of full forestry, 1st step in prep

P1A 2. Silviculture ‐ systems 2 No Base of full forestry, 1st step in prep,specific and imp (I will try giving
short video after CSM)
P1A 3. Silviculture ‐ Mangrove and Cold desert 3 No --
P1A 4. Silviculture of trees 4 No Be selective, try doing 2-3 spp each day, no need of sleepless nights
because option will be provided for such questions in Mains.

P1B 1. Agroforestry, Social Forestry, Joint Forest Management and 5-6 No Only definitions of terms generic chapters, try rem sm examples of each concept, JFM (***)
Tribology Agroforestry, Farmforestry, Social
forestry, Urban forestry and JFM
P1B 2. Forest Soils, Soil Conservation and Watershed management 7-9 Partly Biogeochemical cycles (P177), long generic with lesser specific knowledge addition, many aspects
problem soils (P180), ch 9, annex 1 already covered in Pre/CSM, no of Qs asked lesser, may be done after
main chapters.

P1B 3. Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity 10 Yes Full chapter almost all topics already covered in Pre/CSM.

P1B 4. Tree Improvement and Seed Technology 11 No Specific and imp chapter, someone from Botany knowledge can be more
helpful, only if available

P2A 1. Forest Management and Management Systems 12 No Manikandan not good source, only this chapter can be referred in limited
time from RamPrakash (pdf link in this blog), I will try giving a short
video for this chapter after CSM

P2A 2. Forest Working Plan 13 No easy chapter

P2A 3. Forest Mensuration and Remote Sensing 14-15 No ch 14- specific and imp (I will try giving short video after CSM)

P2A 4. Surveying and Forest Engineering 16-18 No --

P2B 1. Forest Ecology and Ethnobotany 19 Yes Full chapter almost all topics already covered in Pre/CSM.
P2B 2. Forest Resources and Utilization 20-21 No Specific and imp chapter
P2B 3. Forest Protection & Wildlife Biology 22, 25 No
P2B 4. Forest Economics and Legislation 23, 24 Partly Ch 24 overview