Abstract

The study was conducted in Golaghat Forest Division of Assam with 203 respondents selected from all the 14 forest villages under the division by using proportionate random sampling. The study reveals that majority (81.77%) respondents had low level of participation in selected maintenance practices of forest resources. People in forest villages had commonly involved in maintenance practices like soil working, weeding and cleaning. The study further shows that the variables – education, family size, localiteness-cosmopoliteness, economic motivation, decision making ability, interest in forestry, information seeking behaviour, forestry knowledge and attitude towards forest resource conservation had shown positively significant relationship with the extent of participation in maintenance practices of forest resources.

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