High Altitude Forest Research

Project

Develop experimental design for determining forest growth patterns and stand distributions of the high altitude forests in the Nangpa and Hinku Valleys of Nepal.

Result

Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa wrote a dissertation entitled, “Human Impacts on High-altitude Forest Structures in the Nangpa and Hinku Valleys, Sagarmatha and Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal”. The forest sample data collected for the High Altitude Forest Research Project contributed to the disseration.