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Forest Management Overview

Forest management is the process of planning and implementing practices to balance environmental, economic, social, and cultural objectives in forest stewardship and use. It involves varying degrees of human intervention to maintain forest ecosystems and functions while also producing goods like timber. Forests cover one third of the world's land and provide crucial services, but are threatened by climate change, so active forest management is needed to help forests adapt. Methods include harvesting trees, clearcutting, seed tree harvesting, and reforestation to ensure forests regrow sustainably. The Chipko movement originated as a grassroots effort where Indian villagers hugged trees to prevent logging and protect local forests.

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Forest Management Overview

Forest management is the process of planning and implementing practices to balance environmental, economic, social, and cultural objectives in forest stewardship and use. It involves varying degrees of human intervention to maintain forest ecosystems and functions while also producing goods like timber. Forests cover one third of the world's land and provide crucial services, but are threatened by climate change, so active forest management is needed to help forests adapt. Methods include harvesting trees, clearcutting, seed tree harvesting, and reforestation to ensure forests regrow sustainably. The Chipko movement originated as a grassroots effort where Indian villagers hugged trees to prevent logging and protect local forests.

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Forest Management

Name: Lynn Crasto


Class: 10-C
What is Forest Management?
Forest management is the process of planning and implementing
practices for the stewardship and use of forests to meet specific
environmental, economic, social and cultural objectives. It deals
with the administrative, economic, legal, social, technical and
scientific aspects of managing natural and planted forests. It may
involve varying degrees of deliberate human interventions, ranging
from actions aimed at safeguarding and maintaining forest
ecosystems and their functions, to those favouring specific socially
or economically valuable species for the improved production of
forest goods and services.
• It is a fallacy that the best way to protect a
forest is to leave it alone – and with
climate change gathering pace and the
world’s population rising, active forest
Why Do We management is more important than ever.

Need Forest • Forests cover roughly one third of the


Management world’s land area and provide vital
environmental services such as climate
? regulation, soil protection and water
management. They also produce food and
raw materials, which sustain hundreds of
millions of people and support economies.
Why Do We Need Forest Management?

• But the world is changing.


Temperatures are predicted to
rise, due to manmade climate
change, and forests need to
keep pace with this change.
To ensure they do, it is vital
to conserve forest genetic
resources, the inherent
genetic material that exists
within a species and forms
the base for adaptation.
Methods For Forest
Management
• HARVESTING TREES: Trees are harvested for
a variety of reasons including improving the
health of the forest, controlling the types of
trees that grow on the site, providing a source of
income for the landowner, producing paper,
lumber and numerous other forest products; and
improving access to the area for hikers, hunters
and other recreational users.
• CLEARCUT HARVEST: Clearcutting removes
all the trees in a given area, much like a
wildfire, hurricane or other natural disturbance
would do. It is used most frequently in pine
forests, which require full sunlight to grow, and
in hardwood forests with yellow poplar,
sweetgum, cherry, maple and other species that
require full sunlight.
Methods For Forest
Management
• SEED TREE HARVEST: In a seed tree harvest, five
or more scattered trees per acre are left in the
harvested area to provide seeds for a new forest
stand. These trees are selected based on their growth
rate, form, seeding ability, wind resistance and future
marketability.
• REFORESTATION: Trees are a renewable resource.
This means that they can be grown, harvested,
replanted and harvested again and again in a never-
ending cycle to provide clean air and water, habitat
for wildlife, beautiful views and thousands of
products both today and in the future. The process of
growing trees on an area that previously has been
harvested or cleared is called reforestation.
Methods For Forest
Management
• Sustainable forest management: It offers a holistic
approach to ensure forest activities deliver social,
environmental and economic benefits, balance
competing needs and maintain and enhance forest
functions now and in the future. Forest
certification is the tool to prove this and to
connect the consumer with the sustainable origins
of their products.
The Chipko Movement
The Chipko Andolan (Hug the Trees Movement)
was the result of a grassroot level effort to end the
alienation of people from their forests. The
movement originated from an incident in a remote
village called Reni in Garhwal, high-up in the
Himalayas during the early 1970s. There was a
dispute between the local villagers and a logging
contractor who had been allowed to fell trees in a
forest close to the village. On a particular day, the
contractor’s workers appeared in the forest to cut
the trees while the men folk were absent.
Undeterred, the women of the village reached the
forest quickly and clasped the tree trunks thus
preventing the workers from felling the trees. Thus
thwarted, the contractor had to withdraw.
THANK YOU

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