Forest Management Principles

Preface

Forest management practices began since was used to be taught in forestry but with the passage of time, the dynamic nature has forced the forestry and forest management to constantly change the prescription under changed ecology and economy. This is natural. Now adays, the world is moving very first and so the changes are also happening very fast. Forestry management concept has dramatically changed and is still changing almost every day. The text book prescription is also changing fast. The change is compatible, creating a sense of awareness growing aptitude to fight back the adverse impact of deforestation, global warming, climate change and overall the growing human intervention of nature and natural resources. Thus the concept

This change of management concept has opened our closed eyes against our mistake, misdeed towards out forests, our nature. We people were so indifferent in managing our forest resources that we did not even try to understand the deterioration of our daily necessities of life-the forest produces. Rather, we were reckless in legal harvesting the forest resources without paying any heed to the prevailing laws, rules and regulation. The illegal harvesting like theft, pilferage were rampant and both greedy and needy people were involved. Both legal and conservancy organizations had very little significant role to protect our valuable environment ameliorating forest resources-the growing entity. The Forest Act of 1927 was in practice over a long period under the changing circumstances. Therefore it did not work significantly. Revised laws, rules and regulations have come into practices but no remarkable success is noticed. Of course, people are now much more aware of resource conservation but the point is that the rate of production/regeneration of resources can’t keep pace with the rate of consumption. As a result, forced overharvesting damages the resource base and subsequently the production. This is one way of deterioration of the forest resources. Unless education, training and research back up at grass-root level services are ensured, it becomes hardly achievable this gigantic task of sustainable

Innes and Anna V. Tikina. Routledge. 2016; Peter Bettinger et al. Academic Press., 2008; James P. Kimmins. Prentice Hall College Div. 1996 and Ian Ferguson. Oxford University Press. 1998). Few books are very old. No other books are available in the market which deals with broad aspects of forest management both in developed and developing countries. The present book can serve as a Text book in advances in various courses of forest science. Besides the chapters contributed by authors from few countries discuss ongoing research on several aspects of forest management gobally. The book could serve as a guide to the students, researchers, academicians, technicians and forest owners on recent update on forest management. This could be used as text book in forest management course both in the undergraduate and graduate level in forest