Forest management practices such as clearcutting, site preparation, ditching, and ditch network maintenance increase nitrogen (N) load to streams. In environmentally sustainable forestry, water protection actions are required to decrease the nutrient loading. These include e.g. use of uncut buffer zones between a clear-cut area and a waterbody, sedimentation ponds in the ditch network and overl...

realistically and justifiably allocated to protected areas? And perhaps even more importantly, on the remaining actively managed landscape, what forest management practices should be employed and how can these be encouraged? Answers to these questions must be adaptive to evolving models of sustainable ecosystem management as well as geopolitical context and local community involvement. In this ...

abstract the aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in iran. the study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...

1School of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 2Danzhou Investigation & Experiment Station of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture/Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China 3Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 4College of Forestry, ...

Forest and forest product certification systems have grown rapidly in recent years, developing in parallel with the many international, national, and regional initiatives attempting to define and promote sustainable forest management (SF M ) (C arbarle et al. 1995, L awes et al. 1999). T he area certified under the most widely adopted international system, the Forest Stewardship C ouncil, is no...

C Forest Management (CFM) is the youngest forestry program implemented so far, in Nepal. CFM modality in Nepal has been designed focusing on sustainable management of Terai forest. Several policies and strategies formulated and implemented in the past to manage Terai forest resulted unsuccessful. Operation Forest Management Plan (OFMP) and Community Forestry (CF) are the latest example of such ...

Abstract Due to the uncertainty of forest areas in Indonesia, it often creates conflicts with various parties an interest areas, such as communities, institutions that have forestry business permits, and government. Changes area occur from time due conversion for non-forestry sector development, encroachment, fire. The government has issued Government Regulation Number 23 2021 about administrat...

The United States Climate Change Initiative includes improvements to the U.S. Department of Energy's Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The program includes specific accounting rules and guidelines for reporting and registering forestry activities that reduce atmospheric CO2 by increasing carbon sequestration or reducing emissions. In the forestry sector, there is potential for the eco...