High altitude Himalayan regions are geo-dynamically active and sensitive to natural
disturbances. Nonetheless, even in this remote region, human pressure is often most
important in influencing forest and landscape structure. In the last decades, fuelwood
demand has risen due to increasing numbers of tourists and mountaineers. To understand
human interactions with forest resources, stand structure and composition were examined at
the landscape scale in the Sagarmatha National Park and its Buffer Zone in the Khumbu …