Forest lands to be reforested.
Section 33
SEC. 33. Forest lands to be reforested.—The following shall be reforested and covered with suitable and sufficient trees, to wit: Bare or grass-covered tracts of forest lands with at least fifty per cent (50%) slope; 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; Brushlands or tracts of forest lands generally covered with brush, which need to be developed to in crease their productivity; 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; 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; Inadequately-stocked forest lands within forest concessions; Portions of areas covered by pasture leases or permits having a slope of at least fifty per cent (50%); and River banks, easements, road rights of ways, deltas, swamps, former river beds, and beaches.