What is a forest management area?

These management areas consider the recreation settings, activities, and opportunities for experiences and the scenic conditions across the landscape, as well as the primary ways that the forest is accessed.

What does forest management do?

Managing the Forest Forest management focuses on managing vegetation, restoring ecosystems, reducing hazards, and maintaining forest health.

What is forest stand management?

Stand management practices are aimed at establishing regeneration; controlling species composition and density; reducing losses to insects, diseases, and fires; and enhancing nontimber values. These goals are achieved by applying regeneration and inter- mediate cutting methods.

What is the scope of forest management?

Management of forests broadly involves three main tasks viz, (i) Control of composition and structure of the growing stock, (ii) Harvesting and marketing of forest produce, and (iii) Administration of forest property and personnel.

What do forest management do?

Forest management planning ensures that operations support sustainable forestry. The aim is to ensure that forestry operations and related activities are carried out in ways that support the sustainable management of all forest resources for generations to come.

What are the three types of forest management?

There are three major groups of timber harvest practices; clearcutting, shelterwood and selection systems.

What is a grove of trees?

A grove can be an orchard or a clump of trees that doesn’t have much undergrowth and occupies a contained area, like an orange grove or a small shady grove of oak trees where you can have a picnic. You wouldn’t call a forest or a large woods a grove — that’s too big.

What do you mean by 5 Fs in forestry?

Social forestry satisfies the basic rural needs referred to as ‘five Fs’—food, fuel, fodder, fertiliser (green manure) and fibre.