This article proposes to examine the governmental paradigm of granting and community management of forest resources so that the communities contribute to reduce their state of poverty and raise their standard of living and the potential of these resources to provide economic benefits to the people. Relying on the case of community forest of Djoum (South Cameroon), it first explores simple management plans of community forests studied to highlight their qualitative parameters. It then analyzes the methods used to estimate the available resource and, confronts them with various scenarios of inventories applied in a study. It draws the economic assessment of the exploitation activities carried out since their creation. Finally, it examines the economic benefits realized in terms of socio-economic infrastructure and jobs created. The analysis of the results ultimately leads to question the ability of sustainable timber production offered by community forests.