The Forest Management Plan (FMP) is from January 1, 2004 to 31 December, 2013. The FMP provides medium-term direction for planning, building and maintenance of infrastructure, harvesting or salvaging timbers, silvicultural operations and industrial tree plantation development in Sapulut Forest Reserve (partly), which is known as Sustainable Forest Management License Agreement (SFMLA) area or Forest Management Unit (FMU) No. 14.
The SFMLA area is under the jurisdiction of Tibow District Office. The total land area under the SFMLA is 95,300 ha, which is also the current available production area (CAPA).
Past and present records show that the forest in the SFMLA area had been logged at least three times within a short rotation period. Re-logging activities in the area under the short-term licenses continued until early 2003. Field observations and result of the inventory indicate that logging over the SFMLA area had been unsustainable, causing considerable damage to the residual stands. The more gentle terrain (<15 degree slopes) where logging operations are rather easy, have devoid of commercial tree above 30cm dbh as well as having poor growing stocks.
Since the SFMLA area had been heavily exploited, it would take a considerable time for the area to provide sustainable and be financially viable for future harvests if the area
The Forest Management Plan (FMP) is from January 1, 2004 to 31 December, 2013. The FMP provides medium-term direction for planning, building and maintenance of infrastructure, harvesting or salvaging timbers, silvicultural operations and industrial tree plantation development in Sapulut Forest Reserve (partly), which is known as Sustainable Forest Management License Agreement (SFMLA) area or Forest Management Unit (FMU) No. 14.
The SFMLA area is under the jurisdiction of Tibow District Office. The total land area under the SFMLA is 95,300 ha, which is also the current available production area (CAPA).
Past and present records show that the forest in the SFMLA area had been logged at least three times within a short rotation period. Re-logging activities in the area under the short-term licenses continued until early 2003. Field observations and result of the inventory indicate that logging over the SFMLA area had been unsustainable, causing considerable damage to the residual stands. The more gentle terrain (<15 degree slopes) where logging operations are rather easy, have devoid of commercial tree above 30cm dbh as well as having poor growing stocks.
Since the SFMLA area had been heavily exploited, it would take a considerable time for the area to provide sustainable and be financially viable for future harvests if the area is to be purely managed under a Natural Forest Management (NFM) regime. Nevertheless, Sapulut Forest Development Sdn. Bhd believed the concept of sustainable forest management (SFM) and therefore, plans to develop the SFMLA area into more productive forest through natural forest management (NFM) and industrial tree plantation programmes. The development of the area into more productive forests will adopt an environmentally friendly approach that seeks to balance the business objectives of the company, the socio-economic needs of the local communities, the biodiversity and environmental values, and the capacity of the forests to provide sustainable levels of all forest values especially timber.
The heavily logged area, which Sapulut has identified to have a total net area of 27,736 ha or 20% are to be made productive through forest plantation development. preferred species to be planted are Rubber, Acacia Mangium, Paraserianthes falcataria, Laran, and Binuang. There will be 16,316 ha to be managed primarily for conservation and protection (excluding Sg. Siliawan and Sg. Sansiang Virgin Jungle Reserves which are also to be protected by Sapulut). The total net area designated for NFM is 51,248 ha.
Sapulut was given an approval from the State Government to carry out logging within the NFM area. Total area is approximately 11,800 ha. Logging operations on these areas would only take 2 years, that is, 2004-2005. However, effort will be focused on improving the growing stocks through silvicultural treatments, which commences in year 2 (i.e., 2005). The total area to be silviculturally treated during the plan period would be approximately 10,000 ha, that is, an average of 1,000 ha/year.
Harvesting of the residual timber in the compartments destined for forest plantation development during the plan period will begin in Year 1 (i.e. 2004) and end in year 10 (i.e. 2013). Average net area that can be harvested annually is approximately 2,700 ha. Forest Plantation development will start in year 3 (or 2006) with planting target of between 1,800 ha to 3,000 ha/yr.
The expected cost incurred of managing the SFMLA area during the plan period is approximately RM101 million. Approximately RM 20.70 mil. will be used for forest plantation programmes (excluding overhead costs) and RM 20.30 mil. to be incurred for silvicultural treatment programmes. The total cost incurred for forest harvesting is estimated at RM17.60 million. The rest of the costs incurred (RM 39.71 mil) are on overheads and capital costs.
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