Natural resource management is the most critical issue for a hill state like Uttarakhand. The forests, alpine meadows, glaciers and the snow peaks of Uttarakhand which occupies about three-fourths the area of the state provide a large range of eco-system services to the rest of the nation. The green cover also provides service to the whole world by sequestering carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 64.8% of the area of Uttarakhand is under such forest cover and grasslands and is managed by the forest department as well as participatory local bodies called the ‘Van Panchayats’. We are also in the process of increasing the area under Van Panchayats by notifying additional tracts of wastelands and alpine areas for management under Van Panchayats. The fragile topography, remoteness, disaster proneness, two long international borders and severe infrastructure deficit makes the management and protection of our natural resources all the more difficult. The Indian Institute of Forest Management in its paper presented at the World Foresry Congress, 2009 at Buenos Aires, Argentina has estimated ecosystem services of Uttarakhand at around Rs32000 crores per year. The State Government humbly requests the Central Government through this forum to allot at least an additional Rs2000 crores per year as ‘Green Bonus’ to the State of Uttarakhand. The Thirteenth Finance Commission has only sanctioned Rs51 crores this year for the management of forests as per working plan prescriptions and hence can nowhere be considered even close to a ‘green bonus’.