Except nursery and plantation, all treatments result in some form of immediate benefits as by-products, and the users accord high priority to such instantaneous benefits. Subsistence as well as commercial objectives are addressed through diverse silvicultural operations. Leaflitter collection, collection of bedding materials are done to meet the users' own requirements. Argeli cultivation and felling mature trees have been done as part of increasing FUG funds. Many of the silvicultural operations involve removal of live or dead biomass.
Green cutting is avoided as far as possible as the users fear the degradation of the forest.
The prime need of the users appear to be the leaflitter and fuelwood in the two cases. Silvicultural actions undertaken by the two groups are distinguishable in terms of resulting biomass removal, as these are the immediate benefits. Intermediate type of operations are dominant in the two groups, and a provision for final felling based on calculated rotation period is not explicit in the provisions of the operational plan. Activities such as grazing, grass collection, Syaula collection are carried out mainly during the monsoon. This indicates the continuous silvicultural actions in the forest round the year but with varying degree of intensity and purpose.