As pointed out by McKean (2000), the common property regime was carried out in communal lands in theform of shared private property. On one hand, like pri-Community Forestry in Nepal: A Comparison of Management Systems between Indigenous Forestry and Modern Community Forestry 11vate property, the forest can be effectively monitored bythe voluntary activities of members to manage and protect forest with an awareness and sense that a portion ofthe distributed land is their own land. On the other hand,as common property, forest uses are restrained by sharedcommunal regulations among members without needingto establish physical boundaries such as fencing, whichusually costs money to build and maintain