Specialty Forest Products in the Forest: Integrating Special Products Into Ecosystem and Landscape Management
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چکیده
The increasing demand for an increasing array of special forest products is forcing forest landowners and managers to address special products within ongoing management and silvicultural activities. Strategies can vary from single species management in agricultural or near agricultural operations to complex forest management strategies which move special products across an ownership or landscape through time and space. The lack of information, institutional and legal restrictions and prohibitions, history and social concerns and constraints present problems and opportunities
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