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Abstract: One of the most important challenges that today’s world is facing is absence of development in impoverished (Undeveloped) rural areas which have the most part in the protection of natural resources as well as the environment. On the other hand, natural resources, and at the top of them, forests, have always been stressed as a ground for sustainable development. In the present study, the degree of development of sixteen forest-covered villages of Armardeh Region, Baneh, was investigated employing Morris Model. The findings of the study indicated that, after Armardeh, recently promoted to a city, and thus, the existence of the requirements for development is quite natural, the villages of Belakeh, kochar are labeled “semi-developed”, and other villages under study are labeled “undeveloped (impoverished)” in terms of enjoying the facilities and infrastructures of rural development studied in thirteen levels of indexes. Among the indicates under study, the infrastructures indicates (roads, etc., ) have the most degree of difference in the absence of balance and the cultural indicates have the least; these findings remind of the absence of multi-development in various sections.