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In the 1800s forest management in Polish forests was still in its infancy. This article reminds presents tree stands were described in those days. The then concepts of: the forest, tree stand, bare land and large tree group were explained. In addition, the notion as well as the method of determination of the stand species composition and its age, perpendicular structure, closure, mixture proportion,...
The paper reviews the composition of commissions taking decisions regarding the final forms of forest management plans in Poland after the Second World War and analyses regulations from the instructions of forest management plans from 1957, 1970, 1980, 1994, 2003 and 2012 referring to the participation of the respective communities in this process. The aim of this study was to have another look at...
The study presents the history of the creation of forest management units in Polish forests, their concepts, kinds and criteria of discrimination basing on available elaborations issued before World War II, forest management instructions as well as selected concepts proposed by the scientific centres at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
The approach to forest management has changed many times over the time. Forest receives increasingly a lesser extent as wood and wild game supplier. Social and protective functions of the forest have begun to play more and more essential role. Change in the perception of the forest functions entails the questions about the economic consequences of the forest management in an era of changing priorities...
The aim of the work is to present (i) the economic issues included in the forest management plans and (ii) the methodical bases of an ex post economic expertise, which may be carried out in order to evaluate the previous economic period, and should be a part of the economic annex to the forest management plan. Such expertise allows to formulate postulates and objectives to achieve in the near future,...
The paper presents the history of approaches to forest management derived from the idea of forest sustainability, as well as its inspirational role in the formulation of the concept of sustainable development of forests. The promotion of this concept in forestry is the responsibility of forest management planning through the modification of forest management plans and adaptation of the principles...
The paper presents the assessment of possible impact of climate change on forest ecosystems in Poland and its consequences in the forest management planning. Scenarios of climate change in the twenty first century do not allow unambiguous determination of the rate and direction of these changes. However, it is believed that climate change could have negative economic consequences, which directly or...
The forest management plan is the basic document on which the functioning of the forest district in a ten−years−long perspective is based. To maximize the usage, the economic expertise of the forest district administration (EEN) utilises in the large part of the analyses data available in the Information System of the State Forests, which can be obtained at the forest district level. The EEN consists...
The provisions of the Act on Forests apply to all forests in Poland, irrespective of their ownership. They impose on owners and administrators the obligation to draw up Forest Management Plans (FMP) or Simplified FMP (SFMP). While the media are loudly protesting the adoption of some FMP for state forests, especially for some urban forests or semi−primeval forests, analogous documents for private forests...
In Poland, private forests cover the area of 1,774,698 ha, which constitutes 19.2% of total forest area in the country. It is assumed that their actual share is much bigger, because about 300,000 ha of agricultural grounds covered with secondary succession forests, have not been classified as a forest grounds. In 2013, the complete and actual forest management documentation was prepared by 68.7% of...
In the EU countries a forest management plan is a common, however not always obligatory, document updated every 10 years. According to the type of the forest property and its area it may differ in terms of the form and specifity. The forest management in Poland has a long history dating back to the end of 18th century. Nowadays, before each new decade, there is a discussion on the changes, which may...
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