Financial Assessment of Forest Management Systems in the Community Forests: A Case Study from the Midhills of Nepal

Table 2

Characteristics of the studied community forests.

Characteristics	Ram Janaki community forests	Ganga Ram community forests
Year of hand over	1995	1995
Area	45.92 hectare	89.49 hectare
Members	61 households	93 households
ConvFM period	2001–2014	2001–2014
SciFM period	2015–2094	2015–2094
Forest conditions	Good regeneration, the domination of high-quality tree	Good regeneration, the domination of high-quality tree
Forest type	Sal (Shorea robusta) dominated natural forests	Sal (Shorea robusta) dominated natural forests
Data collection period for ConvFM	2012–2014	2012–2014
Data collection period for SciFM	2015–2017	2015–2017