scholarly journals Forest Management in the Interface: Practicing Visible Stewardship

EDIS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Hull ◽  
Sarah F. Ashton ◽  
Rien M. Visser ◽  
Martha C. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Screening Practices ◽  
Fact Sheet

Revised! FOR-177, a 4-page fact sheet by Bruce Hull, Sarah F. Ashton, Rien M. Visser, and Martha C. Monroe, reviews a suite of visible stewardship options, such as cues-to-care and screening practices that can help improve public perceptions of resource management practices such as timber harvesting. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, July 2008.

scholarly journals Habitat Selection by the European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus in North-Eastern Poland: Implications for Forest Management

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Michał Polakowski ◽  
Monika Broniszewska ◽  
Lucyna Kirczuk ◽  
Zbigniew Kasprzykowski
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Forest Edge ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Caprimulgus Europaeus ◽  
Management Recommendations

Research Highlights: Intensive forest management practices generally have a negative effect on biodiversity. However, the creation of new, open habitats as a consequence of timber harvesting within large areas of woodland may be favorable to some bird species. Background and Objectives: Habitat selection of the European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus in a coniferous woodland area in northeastern Poland was studied in order to specify management recommendations. Materials and Methods: To define the influence of various environmental parameters on territory occupation, 11 micro- and 3 macrohabitat factors were analyzed. Results: Denser vegetation in the ground layer deterred birds from nesting in clearings with such characteristics. Moreover, Nightjars preferentially inhabited sites adjacent to young stands of trees. Birds preferred plots with a higher number of clearings in the neighborhood, as this enabled them to enlarge their foraging area. Other microhabitat factors (e.g., the type, age and area of clearings), as well as macroscale factors like distances to the forest edge, nearest roads and human settlements, were of no importance. Conclusions: Knowledge of the Nightjar preferences may be useful in working out a compromise between an appropriate level of clear-felling and conservation of other bird species requiring preservation of old tree stands.

scholarly journals Forest Management in the Interface: Forest Health

EDIS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Health ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Fact Sheet

Revised! FOR-178, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Robert A. Schmidt, describes forest health concerns in the wildland-urban interface, which include slightly different issues and quite different management solutions than the same concerns in rural forests. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, July 2008.

scholarly journals Forest Management in the Interface: Amenity Resources

EDIS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Hull ◽  
Sarah F. Ashton ◽  
Rien M. Visser ◽  
Martha C. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

FOR-175, a 6-page illustrated fact sheet by Bruce Hull, Sarah F. Ashton, Rien M. Visser, and Martha C. Monroe, discusses aesthetic and recreational considerations for forest management in the interface between urban and rural areas. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, February 2008. FOR 175/FR233: Forest Management in the Interface: Amenity Resources (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Joint forest management in India: implications and opportunities for women’s participation in community resource management

SURG Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Sophie Anne Maksimowski
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Joint Forest Management ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Community Resource Management

In recent years, state decentralization of control over community resource management has been increasing on a global scale. This process is largely intended to compensate for bureaucratic inefficiencies through the involvement of local users in state conservation efforts. Since India established its National Forest Policy of 1988, such a shift has occurred in natural resource management from the national to the local level. During the 1990’s this process of decentralization was accelerated under India’s Joint Forest Management (JFM) Policy. This paper examines the implications of JFM in involving local stakeholders with forest management practices, and specifically, women’s role within JFM and the degree of their participation within village forest institutions. Women are the primary collectors of forest products in rural India, and it is recognized that as a forest-dependent group, they ought to be involved in decision-making within these institutions for the sustainability of village livelihoods and conservation efforts. The success of JFM programs in this regard requires that a greater role for women be established through a gender policy within JFM. Both within and outside of state policy, measures to enhance women’s participation must take into account social relations and structures that perpetuate women’s exclusion, and identify ways through which these structures can be transformed. Ultimately, promoting women’s empowerment and livelihood rights and opportunities are essential preconditions to their effective participation.

scholarly journals Forest Management in the Interface: Wildlife

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Parkhurst ◽  
Martha C. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Management Issues

Revised! FOR-182, a 7-page illustrated fact sheet by Jim Parkhurst and Martha Monroe, highlights key wildlife management issues in interface forests and provides background information on potential conflicts. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, October 2008.

scholarly journals Silvicultural madness: a case from the “Scientific Forestry” initiative in the community forests of Nepal

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Basnyat ◽  
T. Treue ◽  
R. K. Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Restoration ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Site Quality ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Scientific Principles

Following a case study approach, this paper explains how scientific forest management plans were developed and implemented in community forests of a mid-hill district in Nepal. Field observations were carried over a period of two years (December 2014 to December 2016) in two community forests. User group members, forest officials, forest technicians and executive committee members were consulted. The plans were prepared simply by compiling the administrative requirements where management prescriptions were defined either based on forest technicians’ knowledge or taken directly from the guidelines with little reference to the actual site quality, management objectives, and forest stand conditions. Apart from harvesting of trees, users hardly implemented the plans’ silvicultural prescriptions and forest restoration activities. Moreover, forest officials administratively reduced the number of trees that users could harvest to around half of what the plans allow. Accordingly, forest user groups face a paradoxical forest administration that promotes timber harvesting according to so-called scientific principles, which it then brushes aside to satisfy bureaucratic demands. The study concludes that the concept of scientific forestry is merely used as a “brand” or a seemingly sound “narrative” in community forestry, while it is of little practical relevance because administrative decisions are more powerful in guiding forest management decisions. Hence, the study suggests a replacement of the current schizophrenic mix of so-called “scientific forest management” and sweeping administrative orders with adaptive management practices in community forests. Banko JanakariA Journal of Forestry Information for Nepal Special Issue No. 4, 2018, Page : 54-64

scholarly journals Management Practices to Support Increased Biodiversity in Managed Loblolly Pine Plantations

EDIS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Andreu ◽  
Kevin Zobrist ◽  
Thomas Hinckley
Keyword(s):  
Loblolly Pine ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Pine Plantations ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Minor Revision ◽  
Intensively Managed

FOR-183, a 9-page fact sheet by Michael Andreu, Kevin Zobrist, and Thomas Hinckley, reviews the literature to identify a spectrum of practices that support increased biodiversity in intensively managed loblolly pine plantations. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, March 2008. Minor revision April 2017.

scholarly journals Forest Resource Management: An Empirical Study in Northern Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8752
Author(s):  
Sajjad Ali ◽  
Dake Wang ◽  
Talib Hussain ◽  
Xiaocong Lu ◽  
Mohammad Nurunnabi
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Forest Resource Management

Community participation for forest sustainability and use of forest resources for community development is considered a vital way in all societies. This study was conducted to assess the public views toward sustainable forest management in the area of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, through collecting data from 255 respondents. Views about forest management techniques at different levels were discussed. Three main areas of focus to manage forest resources were: strategic-level management, local-level management, and communication-level management. To provide confidence and to measure factors affecting sustainable forest management, this study applied the structural equation modeling approach and built a model that explained and identified the critical factors affecting sustainable forest management. A quantitative approach via Smart Partial Least Squares version 3.2.8 was used for analysis. The findings of the study show that the R2 value of the model was 0.653, which means that the three exogenous latent constructs collectively explained 65.3% of the variance in sustainable forest management. In this study, the goodness of fit of the model was 0.431, which is considered valid for further analysis. Among the three proposed levels for forest management, the strategic-level-management factor was found the most important of the three variables. This study concluded that for better and sustainable forest management, policies should flow from the strategic level to the local and also focus on communication-level management because all these factors appear to be significant in measuring sustainable forest management. Community engagement and awareness are also found to be an important way for forest resource management.

scholarly journals The Optimal Forest Management of an Even-Aged Stand: The Biological Rotation versus the Land Expectation Value

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (6) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Andres Susaeta ◽  
Chris Demers
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Stands ◽  
Forest Landowners ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Land Expectation Value ◽  
Optimal Rotation ◽  
Rotation Age

This 4-page fact sheet written by Andres Susaeta and Chris Demers and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation provides a guide for forest landowners, managers, and stakeholders in conducting a valuation of timber investments. It reviews and provides examples of two different approaches for determining the optimal rotation age of even-aged forest stands. These methods can help forest landowners and managers in making forestry investment decisions. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr424

scholarly journals Management of Field Windbreaks

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijay Tamang ◽  
Michael G. Andreu ◽  
Melissa H. Friedman ◽  
Donald L. Rockwood
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Fact Sheet

FOR-288, a 6-page illustrated fact sheet by Bijay Tamang, Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, and Donald L. Rockwood, summarizes the most important management practices needing attention from the time the windbreak is planted to when it is replaced. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, September 2009.

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