The study was conducted in Sirsi taluk, Uttar Kannada district,Karnataka, in two watersheds (5B1A5 and 4D4F5) to assess therequirement of fuel-wood in the villages of the watersheds, sourcesand purpose of use of fuel-wood. The data was collected by personnelinterview method. Five villages in each of the watersheds were selectedand were surveyed to about 10% of the total households of the villagewhich included the equal proportion of the households with thedifferent family sizes i.e. small, medium and large families. The resultsindicate that the demand for fuel-wood from the selected villages wasfound to be higher in watershed 1 i.e. 5B1A5 (18342.1 tonnes/year)than watershed 2 i.e., 4D4F5 (1037.2 tonnes/year). The averageper-capita fuel-wood consumption was also higher in watershed1 (5.23 quintals/year) than watershed 2 (3.86 quintals/year). Thehighest percentage of households collecting fuel-wood from forestwas found to be in watershed 2 (77.7%) than watershed 1 (67.5%).The second most preferred source was bettaland in watershed 1(43.2%) and agriculture land in watershed 2 (9.94%). In bothwatershed 1 and watershed 2, heating water for bathing was the majorpurpose in most of the households of the villages (93.1% and 95.4%respectively), followed by cooking (95.14% and 60.4%, respectively)and areca processing (47.1% and 11.5%, respectively