Such a Community Forest User Group was established
at Katteldanda, a village in Ghorka. Katteldanda
includes 4880 rupani (20 rupani = 1 ha) of communal
land in the vicinity of the village: 4636 rupani of forest
(jungle) and 244 rupani of degraded forests and/or
marginal land covered by dwarf shrubs and ferns
(degraded former forest areas). To rejuvenate the
forest, farmers were forbidden from cutting and
carrying away branches for fodder from the
community forest at the time of the study. They were
allowed only to graze livestock in summer and to
collect leaf litter in winter; So farmers did have access
to the degraded shrub area throughout the year
(Degen et al., 2010b)