The development of private forestry in Lithuania has raised the problem of its sustainability assessment. In order for private forest management in small holdings to be based on sustainability principles, this sustainability must be characterized by a system of measurable criteria and indicators....

At the end of the Land reform process, small-scale private forestry was formed in Lithuania. Almost 250 000 private forest owners (PFOs) of different age, education, attitudes, economic capacity, activity, owning forest holdings of various size, different natural and economical features also...

The issue how to evaluate Lithuanian forests as financial assets exists in accounting. The method of nominal price is used by the State Forest Service for the evaluation of forest economic value through the forest cadastre. There are suggestions for these assessments to be considered as the real...

Comparative analysis of private forest owners' social and economic evolution was performed using the data of private forest owners' sociological surveys performed in years 1999 and 2008. The analysis revealed significant changes in the area of private forestry. According to the results of the first ...

The processes of globalization in Lithuanian forestry, accelerated after the restitution of Independence (1990) with the development of a market economy and private initiative when the barriers for movement of resources, knowledges and technologies have started to destroy or reduce. The main...

The economic efficiency of the most common tree species (pine, spruce, oak, ash, birch, aspen, black and grey alder) growing in Lithuania pure stands in fertile site types (c, d, f - soil fertility and N, L - soil moisture indices) has been studied. The purpose of this study - to compare the...

This research was carried out in 2007 and 2008 and used data from 27 forest enterprises (state enterprises) on factual expenses for the main operations of forest regeneration applied for artificial and natural regeneration of all the main forest tree species (scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), spruce (...

An analysis of income and expenditures of state forest enterprises showed that the greatest part of income and expenditures of state forest enterprises belong to roundwood harvesting. Compared to the normative, the part of roundwood logs in state forest enterprises was less while those of small...

The most important kinds of forests uses in Lithuania are wood, forests' mushrooms, berries, herbs, hunting, recreation, carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, water and soil protection. According to the concept of total annual economic value the preliminary evaluation of Lithuanian ...

Sustainable forest management is defined as the stewardship and use of forest and forest land in a way, and at a rate, that maintains the forest's biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfil, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and...