The community forest management with the community participation: A Case Study of PhuPhuop Community forest,Wang NaamMuok Village, Phuphrabath District, Srichiangmai, Nongkhai Province.

Abstract

This research aimed to study the general contexts of Wang NaamMuok Village, Phuphrabath District, Srichiangmai,Nongkhai in order to study the participation in PhuPhuop community forest management, to study how to manage it and in order to make plans to manage the PhuPhuop community forest with the community participation. There were two groups of research samples. Study the participation sample group was 105 heads of families that have lived in the research area for the quantitative research results. (Validity raged value was 0.86 and Reliability raged value was 0.97) The data was collected by questionnaires and analyzed by basic statistics which were a percentage, average and standardization. Another one was for the qualitative research results. There were 7 purposively sampling groups that were 2 forest rangers, 6 folk philosophers, 3 local administrative organization administrators, a school director, 20 community leaders, 5 home stay staff of the communities and 19 target local people. The data was collected by an interview, a group discussion and a community stage, analyzed by a content analysis and presented by a description. The research results were found that 1) Wang NaamMuok Village, Phuphrabath District, Srichiangmai, Nongkhai is a simple village with a traditional life style. The villagers are kind to each other. Most of them are farmers. They can rely on themselves. They have outstanding identities such as the PhuPhop forest community, Wang Nam Muok waterfall, religious places, long traditional culture, local wisdom and strong local administrative organization. 2) for the participation in the PhuPhuop community forest management, overall for the 4 areas, research sample groups have participated in the activities moderately, 3) the PhuPhuop community forest management patterns has been conducted with 7 ways such as retaining, repairing, solving and restoring, developing, protecting, preserving and demarcating and 4) for the plans of the PhuPhuop community forest management with the community participation, there are 7 planswith 40 projects which are 5 projects for the retaining, 2 projects for the repairing, 3 projects for the solving and restoring, 18 projects for the developing, 8 projects for the protecting, 2 projects for the preserving and 2 projects for the demarcating.