Buffer zones
09 February 2015
09 February 2015
The video shows effects and benefits for landscape and biodiversity to have an untouched buffer zone of a few metres between waterways and felling sites.
Retention trees
06 February 2015
06 February 2015
To promote the biodiversity of forest nature, groups of trees are left standing on regeneration felling sites. This video shows this technique applied on Finnish stands.
Early clearance of seedling stands
06 February 2015
06 February 2015
In early clearance, the shoots of broad-leaved species which overshadow the seedlings are cleared away, in order to promote the growth of the best seedlings. This video shows this silvicultural technique in a Finnish stand.
Regeneration felling
06 February 2015
06 February 2015
As the growth of the trees in a forest slows down or the trees becomes of sufficient age and size, it may be regenerated. Regeneration felling is comparable to harvesting, so that they also result in the biggest logging revenues. According to the Finnish Forest Act, new stands must be...
First thinning
06 February 2015
06 February 2015
Too dense a forest needs to be thinned. Depending on the site and the tree species, two or three thinnings may be carried out before regeneration. The forest owner may gain substantial revenue from thinnings. In the first thinning the best trees are selected and left to grow, and space...
This publication reflects the outcome of an ambitious initiative of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others...
This book, with contributions from 25 authors, tells in brief the history of forestry in Suriname and some other tropical countries. It reveals how the work on forestry in Suriname led to the development of a potentially sustainable forest management system, integrating a harvesting and a silvicultural system. And it...
The relationship between tropical forests and global climate change has so far focused on mitigation, while much less emphasis has been placed on how management activities may help forest ecosystems adapt to this change. This paper discusses how tropical forestry practices can contribute to maintaining or enhancing the adaptive capacity...
This manual developed by Hampshire Timber Harvesting Council is a comprehensive manual on Silvicultural principles for New Hampshire forest types. It is a fundamental tool for NH Professional Loggers Programme.
Indian forest management handbook – Silviculture
23 June 2014
23 June 2014
This Handbook Volume is designed to provide procedural guidance and minimal
standards relevant to the application of sound silvicultural practices to manipulate stands as efficiently and effectively as possible across lands in trust or restricted status under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Although this handbook addresses silviculture...