Nowadays, improving forest management is done by way of amendments to the forest management instructions, silvicultural rules and forest protection instructions. From the point of view of forest management, the most important is the forest management plan, the basic document prepared for a specific ...

In Central Europe, deforestation led to a reduction of forest area by almost 80%, compared to the original area, by the beginning of the 20^th century. At this point in time, a period of intensive reforestation began in an effort to restore forest areas. This process of reforestation, especially on...

The aim of the study was (i) to analyze the selected costs of silviculture and forest protection against game and (ii) to determine the relationship between the presence of deer in forest ecosystems and the value of selected costs in the forest districts of the Regional Directorate of the State...

This article aimed to determine whether the use of the "Forest Data Bank" information system can allow for fast, and easy access to data necessary for forest management and how it can be used for forest management purposes. In this study, we present what constitutes the term "forest management" as...

This paper presents a system of uneven-aged forest management consistent with the principles of close-to-nature silviculture with treatments adopted to the requirements of individual tree stands, depending on their development phase, growing stock volume, DBH distribution and regeneration status....

The aim of the study was to analyse the costs of forestry works, which were contracted out to private forestry companies by the organizational units of the State Forests in years 2006-2012. We studied the costs of seed harvesting, sowing, seedling production, forest regeneration and reforestation,...

The present work applied a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to assess changes in the technical efficiency of timber production at a period of transition in forest management priorities. The study material consisted of data on timber sold by Polish State Forests (PSF) and on its forest...

Integrative forest management approaches, aiming to combine the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services in the same forest area, are popular forest management concepts in Europe. Their understanding and application varies, however, across the continent. This paper looks at one dimension of...

'Sylwan' is the oldest Polish forest scientific journal. Over the years it has been presenting methods of forest management planning, providing scientific explanation of various current problems and issues of forestry at home and abroad, thus contributing to the increase of expertise in the field....

Criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management (SFM) are an important tool to monitor forest condition and assess forest management in individual countries, as well as an instrument to support forest policy making, public communication and international forest-related reporting....