Effect of Human Activities on the Forest of the Federal Institute of Science and Technology Education Minas Gerais - campus Sao Joao Evangelista (IFMG-SJE)

The vegetation is still a source of energy for activities of a considerable part of the population. Our objectives were: to establish the logging in a fragment of Atlantic Forest IFMG-SJE; determine the causes of extraction; provide indicators that signal the forest suffered human disturbance, to obtain basic perceptions about the environment. Interviews were conducted in targeted neighborhoods Centenarios I and II and Engenho de Serra. Plants were detected more withdrawals by residents (angico, canudo-de-pito, murici and pau-jacare), which measures had their diameters at breast height (DBH) in parcels of 1000m(2) (50 x 20m). The DBH were submitted to Tukey's test. The DBHs were measured with a caliper and a template of 1.30 m. In the remaining stumps with signs of cut and measured the DBH and found himself a preferred class of DBH extraction. As a function of low education and low income residents, there are logging this forest. The use of questionnaires and DBH have been effective in the diagnosis of human interference that forest. Involve residents in environmental education projects and socioeconomic may favor the protection of this forest fragment.