Abstract
In the Himalaya, a number of river valley projects are under construction, where large forest cover will be submerged after completion of these projects. We estimated the carbon stock of forest in the hydroelectric project of Srinagar Garhwal, which will be submerged after completion of the project. For the estimation of carbon stock, the selected forest areas were categorized into five randomly selected sites from Supana, the main village of the reservoir area, to the village of Dhari Devi against the stream flow of the river. Among the sites the growing stock of trees was maximum in site-II (490.3 m
3
ha
−1
) and minimum in site-I (96.74 m
3
ha
−1
). The soil organic carbon stock was maximum in site-V (22.4 t ha
−1
) and minimum in site-I (12.8 t ha
−1
), whereas the total carbon stocks of the sites (tree, forest floor and soil) were maximum in site-II (347.71 t ha
−1
) and minimum in site-I (76.63 t ha
−1
).