Management of Community Forest in the Area of Quality Class of Basin of a River of the Third Class in Sisaket Province By People’s Participation

Abstract

                    The community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province by people’s participation, it is the Qualitative Research by having purposes as follows: 1) to study the context of  community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province, 2) to search for the activities and the ways of community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province and 3) to present the suitable ways in community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province. Target groups used in this research are 515 persons in total by in-depth interview with executive agencies on the forest, chief executives of the local administrative organizations, monks, community leaders, community forest committee and household representatives of 45 persons in total. Focus group with the representatives of state agency and community representatives of 6 times 120 persons in total and meeting for suggesting ways with state agency and community of 7 times 350 persons in total, qualitative data analysis by analysis stage classification as 5 stages; namely (1) analysis with inductive method, (2) checking the data, (3) making the database index, (4) making the temporary conclusion and limiting the data and (5) building a conclusion.

                      The research findings are as follows:

1. The context of community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province or community forest of Wat Phrabath Phusing in Koktan sub-district, Phusing district, Sisaket province. It is the area of national forest on the right bank forest located along Thailand and Cambodia borders. Status and community forest context has been got management, restoration and protection together among government agencies on the forest, local government organizations and people in the area. It has fertility, some areas found that there was problem in trespass to smuggle deforesting and enter to apply in the forest area. While people in the area have way of life to depend on community forest resources. Since there was richness of kind of trees spreading in the area of this community forest a river, besides it is still the food center of community in the area having both vegetables, fruits and herbs used by people in the area both direct and indirect ways.


2. Searching for activities and ways of community forest management in in the quality class area of the third basin of a river by people’s participation; namely doing activities to protect trespass community forest, building consciousness in conserving the community forest resources, supporting and going along with state agency in protecting community forest, afforesting,and forest restoring aetivity, the forest area expansion in the community area. report and notification in the case of having disaster in the area of community forest, data information on the community forest management, community forest management being used to cultural dimension, tradition, wisdom and belief about holy thing in forest, building the shrine of  ancestor, shrine, the ordination ceremony for woods, promoting and supporting and giving an opportunity for people in the area to have participation in community forest management.


3. Suggesting the suitable methods in community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river in Sisaket province in family and community levels; namely making plan for development and restoration of community forest resources, establishing the community forest committee and developing the community mainstay potentials in staying alerted for community forest, having plan in developing people’s quality of life in the area, bringing Sufficiency Economy to apply, fostering consciousness in looking for community forest for children and youth, the regulation for community forest management, the ways in local institution and province levels; namely the coordination for working with government agencies in the local to conserve and restore the community forest resources, determining the ways of management in long period to develop community forest resources, developing database system to be modern and up-to-date, supporting to have sub-district development plan in community forest management in the quality class area of the third basin of a river, fostering people in the area to have feeling of love and valuing highly, knowing to use community forest resources, building careers, building economic forest in community in policy  and country levels; namely supporting operation, building cherished possession and the spirit for forest institute in the area level, supporting on the academic work, supporting man power in community forest management and building the ways in reducing the conflict with people in area, considering policy and guidelines suitable with community forest management in local area.