This proceedings contains over 100 papers presented at the Biennial International Symposium on Forest and Sustainable Development held in Brasov, Romania, during 27-28 October 2006. Topics covered include stand regeneration, ecology, management, silviculture, silvicultural systems including...

These proceedings contain 111 papers presented on a symposium on Forest and Sustainable Development held in Brasov, Romania, during 2005, which were categorized under the following headings: (1) Silvobiology; (2) Silvotechnics; (3) Biodiversity conservation and protected areas; (4) Mechanization of ...

In many cases tree felling and processing operations are carried out motor-manually and knowledge about fossil fuel consumption and direct energy inputs when using such equipment is required for different purposes starting with operational costing and ending with environmental assessment of forest...

Professor Petre Antonescu was born in Ploiești. He completed his professional education at Herăstrău-Bucharest, Nancy and Vienna. He obtained the PhD degree at the University of Cluj His professional activity was rich and highly valuable. In the production area he designed forest management plans...

These proceedings contain 107 papers presented at the Biennial International Symposium on Forest and Sustainable Development held in Brasov, Romania, during 17-18 October 2008, which were categorized under the following headings: (1) Silvobiology; (2) Silvotechnics and forest protection; (3)...

This paper presents some aspects concerning the importance of ligniculture for a lasting forest management. The author shows that the extension of the TRIAD concept is also necessary in Romania as a way of minimizing the influence of society on forests and, at the same time, as a solution of...

In Europe, Norway spruce plantations cover important areas, which have grown since the end of de 18-th century owing to the growing interest in cultivating this forest species. The paper compares the evolutions of silvicultural interventions in young Norway spruce plantations of Europe and Romania. ...

Cable yarding operations are conventionally used in steep terrain harvesting, but their share in operations varies widely, tending to be low in many regions. This study evaluated the time consumption, productivity and cost of downhill sledge-yarding operations in group shelterwood extractions...

Territorial System of Environmental Stability (TSES) is a system of biocorridors and bio-centers, covered mainly by forests, which is able to maintain the ecological resistance against harmful factors and enables survival and migration of organisms living in the natural ecosystems. TSES is proposed ...

Aiming to determine the evolution trend of the tree stands during the study period, the hydrological Bonity Index for tree stands was calculated, with its mean value for every forest management planned for years 1962, 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2004. The discovered trend was descending, which means an...