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Forest management encompasses the administrative, economic, legal, and scientific aspects of forestry, focusing on various resource values such as aesthetics, wildlife, and wood products. It is essential to prevent issues like species extinction, soil erosion, and flooding, and employs methods like afforestation and sustainable forest management. Recent advocacy emphasizes sustainability, with recommendations for monitoring and reporting on national-level criteria for effective forest management.

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4 Forest Management

Forest management encompasses the administrative, economic, legal, and scientific aspects of forestry, focusing on various resource values such as aesthetics, wildlife, and wood products. It is essential to prevent issues like species extinction, soil erosion, and flooding, and employs methods like afforestation and sustainable forest management. Recent advocacy emphasizes sustainability, with recommendations for monitoring and reporting on national-level criteria for effective forest management.

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Forest

Management
What is Forest Management?
• Forest management is the branch of forestry concerned with the
overall administrative, economic, legal, and social aspects and with
the essentially scientific and technical aspects,
especially silviculture, protection, and forest regulation.

• This includes management for aesthetics,fish, recreation, urban


values, water, wilderness, wildlife, wood products, forest genetic
resources and other forest resource values.

• Management can be based on conservation, economics, or a


mixture of the two. Techniques
include timber extraction, planting and replanting of various
species, cutting roads and pathways through forests, and
preventing fire.
Need for Forest Management
Forest management is required to avoid the followings:
• Extinction of Thousands of Species -Millions of plants and
animal species are in danger of disappearing as a result
of deforestation.

• Heavy Soil Erosion -One function of the forest is that its


roots hold the soil in place.

• Greenhouse Effect-The continued degradation of our


forest heightens the threat of global warming
• Flooding-One major importance of forest is that they
absorb water quickly in great amount during heavy rains
and avoid floods.

• Landslides- Trees prevent soil from getting eroded by


natural agents like wind or water.

• Degraded Watershed -When forest mountains are


denuded, watersheds are degraded and this leads to the
loss of sustained water supplies for lowland
communities.
Methods of Managing Forest
• Afforestation- Afforestation is the establishment of a
forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no
forest.
• Reforestation-Reforestation is the restocking of existing
forests and woodlands which have been depleted, an
effect of deforestation.

• Sustainable forest management-Sustainable forest


management (SFM) is the management
of forests according to the principles of sustainable
development.
• Avoiding Wildfire-A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in
combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or
awilderness area.
Conclusion
• One of the biggest challenges towards the outlook of
forests in the recent times has been concerns about
‘sustainability’ of our resources. It has emerged as one of
the main concerns of recent policy advocacy.

• The National Forest Commission, has recommended


creating an enabling environment to facilitate
assessment, monitoring and reporting on national-level
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest
management.
Thank You

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