Forest cover and land use map of a part of FRI campus is shown in Fig. 4. Total area of selected portion
came out to be 138.60 ha. Further, area statistics presented in Table 3 and Fig. 5 clearly indicated that Chir
pine covered major portion (37.478%) together with Chir pine mixed (13.131%) and mixed Chir pine
(0.0675%). Mixed vegetations which were scattered throughout the selected portion of FRI comprised
15.468% of the total area under investigation. Teak comprised (5.551%) followed by Sal (4.035%), Cupressus
mixed (3.129%), Botanical garden-mixed (1.389%) and open area/grass land/built up (0.475%).