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Today the high forest zone is dominated by farmland (including fallow and some plantations), with forest and wildlife reserves covering approximately 20% of the zone (Hawthorne and Musha, 1993; 4). However, in terms of timber the standing volume is not confined to the forest reserves only. Farm and fallow land in the high forest zone carry a substantial timber resource in the form of scattered trees on agricuitural fields, providing shade for the crops, sacred groves (pockets of closed-canopy forest serving religious and spirituel purposes) and a few larger areas of closed-canopy forest outside forest reserves.
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Treue, T. (2001). General Issues on Trees and Forests in the High Forest Zone. In: Politics and Economics of Tropical High Forest Management. Forestry Sciences, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0706-1_3
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