Section 33May 19, 1975, Sec./Art. 33

Forest lands to be reforested. The following shall be reforested and covered with suitable and sufficient trees, to wit:

(a) Bare or grass-covered tracts of forest lands with at least fifty per cent (50%) slope;

(b) Bare or grass-covered tracts of forest lands with less than fifty per cent (50%) slope, but with soil so highly erodible as to make grass cover inadequate for soil erosion control;

(c) Brushlands or tracts of forest lands generally covered with brush, which need to be developed to increase their productivity;

(d) Open tracts of forest lands with slopes or gradients generally exceeding fifty per cent (50%), interspersed with patches of forest each of which is less than two hundred fifty (250) hectares in area;

(e) Denuded or inadequately-timbered areas proclaimed by the President as forest reserves and reservations as critical watersheds, national parks, game refuge, bird sanctuaries, national shrines, national historic sites;

(f) Inadequately-stocked forest lands within forest concessions;

(g) Portions of areas covered by pasture leases or permits having a slope of at least fifty per cent (50%); and

(h) River banks, easements, road rights-of-ways, deltas, swamps, former river beds, and beaches.