• 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)...

Subsoiling is becoming a standard practice to alleviate detrimental soil compaction following biomass harvesting in eastside pine and mixed conifer forests in California. Compaction of soil following the harvesting can be detrimental to growth of residuals, to establishment of natural regeneration, and may change long term soil productivity. The short and long term effects of this subsoiling pr...

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Nacrtak The forest operations engineering and management community has been facing the problem of improving its scientific visibility, realigning its research efforts to the future challenges, and of strengthening its self-confidence. The paper aims at exploring the paradigms that shaped the development of forest operations as a scientific discipline, sketching a vision how forest operations co...

Forest restoration is affected by two compounding problems. First, the goals of restoration often are unclear and involve the simultaneous consideration of a number of diverse criteria including aesthetics, biodiversity, recreation, and economic cost. Second, restoration management is a long-term process such that effects are difficult to measure at the time of implementation. Moreover, restora...

Lurch, a forest management decision support tool utilizing an object-oriented architecture, has been developed and tested in the context of multiple-objective and multiple-stakeholder forest management planning problems in British Columbia. A satisficing approach based upon Criteria and Indicators, goal programming, and stochastic heuristic sub-optimization is used. The system is controlled int...

Soaring expenditures for fire management in the USDA Forest Service have caused substantial concern over fire management costs, especially in light of questions about the role of fire in ecosystems. This report contains analysis of most Forest Service fire management expenditures between fiscal years 1970-98. Expenditure information was obtained from a variety of sources, including electronic f...

Forest resource management systems and forest landscape visualization applications often need usersteered interactive displays of a forest landscape representing the underlying forest inventory database. We present an approach for dynamically modeling and real-time rendering of a real forest. A parameterized procedural tree model is given with a hybrid representation method and a specific level...

Fungal communities have been shown to be highly sensitive toward shifts in plant diversity and species composition in forest ecosystems. However, little is known about the impact of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition of geographically separated sites. This study examined the effects of four different forest management types on soil fungal communities. These forest m...