The research was undertaken from 1997-2000 to investigate how forest
policy has faired in meeting the set objectives in forestry contexts
and development in study area. The result showed that deforestation and
consolidation of forest reserves accounted for 73.64 and 3.10%,
respectively. The result also revealed that there was significant
difference in the participation of professional foresters and taskforce
as well as regeneration and exploitation of forest resources
(P<0.05). It also revealed that there were significant differences
among the threats to forest protection (P<0.05) and further analysis
with LSD identified trespass as the most dominant threats. The result
also showed that the increase in employment, creation of man made
forest and encouragement of private forestry accounted for 41.65, 19.85
and 10.19% respectively. It was observed that there was no significant
difference among the various rates of decline of the forest estates
under review
