Forest Management

Factors Affecting the Sustainable Forest Management

The major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the Forest, Range and WatershedOrganization. It is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. A questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. The validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. Theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

Forest Resource Management

Modelling in Forest Management

Forest management has traditionally been considered management of trees for timber. It really includes vegetation management and land management and people management as multiple objectives. As such, forest management is intimately linked with other topics in this volume, most especially those chapters on ecological modelling and human dimensions. The key to responsible forest management is to ...

Sustainable Forest Management Techniques

Forests being an indispensable resource play an important role in maintaining the earth's ecological balance. The major contributors of deforestation are logging off of trees (legal or illegal), tree theft, forest fire etc. Large scale deforestation has negative impact on the atmosphere resulting in global warming, flash floods, landslides, drought etc. Due to these adverse effects, forest mana...

Mobile forest management

• The perspective for future is a new technology of sustainable forest management based on utilisation of modern information technologies (mobile communication, remote sensing methods, temporally analysis, mathematical modelling). Mobility forestry planing systems and services, which exploit and are built on the existing (GPRS) and future telecommunications (UTMS) and positioning networks (GPS)...