Melghat's management plan has a separate chapter on the multiple-use area (MUA). Different zones within the area are set aside for activities such as soil and moisture conservation, meadow development and weed eradication.

A plan is also in place for bamboo harvesting in the MUA, Working scheme for bamboo bearing areas in multiple use reserved forest (outside protected area) of Melghats, period: 2004-05 to 2006-07. It observes that "complete stoppage of felling leads to closure of canopy and reduction in