Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical...

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors...

Joint Forest Management often abbreviated as JFM is the official and popular term in India for partnerships in forest movement involving both the state...

Forest Ecology and Management is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering forest ecology and the management of forest resources. The journal...

biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forests as "sinks" for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Forest ecosystems have...

forestry whereby the local community plays a significant role in forest management and land use decision making with the facilitating support of government...

Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, flora, fauna, funga, and ecosystems in forests. The management of forests...

The Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), founded 1982, is an autonomous, Natural Resource Service training institute of Forestry located in Bhopal...

organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification. This organization uses a market-based...

& Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management (C&I) are policy instruments by which sustainability of forest management in the country/region, or progress...

An old-growth forest (also referred to as primary forest) is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this,...

S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management). The concept of national forests was born from Theodore Roosevelt's conservation group...

Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests) is a 1992 document produced at the United...

Community-based forest management (CBFM) constitutes “a powerful paradigm that evolved out of the failure of state forest governance to ensure the sustainability...

first Indonesian forest company to receive the sustainable forest management certification from the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification...

State Forest Management Centre (Estonian: Riigimetsa Majandamise Keskus, abbreviated RMK) is Estonian state institution which focuses mainly on forest management...

forest policy document emphasizes the need to combine India's effort at forest conservation with sustainable forest management. India defines forest management...

Scientific management of Forest is done through the establishment of Forest Management Units. The division was renamed to FRMD in 2000 from Forest Resource...

Forest integrated pest management or Forest IPM is the practice of monitoring and managing pest and environmental information with pest control methods...

supporting forest certification and the ability to trace the origin of wood fiber helps ensure sustainable forest management and legal logging. The forest certification...

Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of...

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation...

the Tuchola Forest Promotional Forest Complex for the purposes of promoting sustainable forest management. Its primary objective is forest education, in...

biological, physical, social, political and managerial sciences. Forest management plays an essential role in the creation and modification of habitats...

National forests Forest Management Act, United States statute in 1897 National Forest Management Act of 1976, which addresses the management of renewable...

Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture. It combines...

forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range...

Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization which promotes sustainable forest management through...

from the south of Europe. Though, as a primary result of production forest management at the middle of the twentieth century, P. abies and Scots pine (Pinus...

passed, giving forest advocates a legal basis to challenge logging if it threatened an endangered species. 1976: The National Forest Management Act was enacted...