The study of silvicultural aspects of community forest in Buana Sakti Lampung Province

Abstract The silvicultural aspect of forest community is a network of planned activities starting from the type of selection, nursery, land preparation, cultivation, maintenance to planting. This research aims to determine the silvicultural aspects applied by the community in Buana Sakti Village. This research was conducted in January 2013 in Buana Sakti Village, Batanghari District, East Lampung Regency. The sample of respondents in this research amounted 40 persons who were randomly selected using the simple random sampling method. The composition of forest community’s plant species was collected using centralized radian plots. The results of research are presented in tabular form and, analysed descriptively. The silvicultural aspects applied by the community of Buana Sakti District are patchwork and simple silvicultural aspects. The type of community forest composition among respondent in Buana Sakti Deistrict consisted of 60% forestry plants, 25% plantation crops, and 15% agricultural crops. The largest intersections for the growth phases of trees and poles were acacia (Acacia auriculiformis) with a total of 96 stems / ha and 1265 stems / ha. Meanwhile, for the seedling and sapling phases, the largest intersection was cempaka (Michelia champaca) which was of 2000 stem / ha.