Mountain-Forest ecosystems provide essential services within the economic system of the region and perhaps the country. These natural resources, which have many apparent or not apparent functions, are facing economic development pressures in recent years. With quality and rational forest management...

This paper is aimed to determine the stakeholders' perception against a new forest management policy for stumpage sales in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey. Ownership of country's forests (99.9%) belongs to the government and timber production and sales have been managed by The General...

Forestry resources are managed by long, middle and short term national, regional and local scale plans, programs and special arrangements to consider international and national purposes. The smallest administrative and planning units of forest area in Turkey are the Forest Administration Chief...

This study was handled to analyze the forestry workload according to seasons and business types and to find out the problems while carrying out forestry activities and to develop solution suggestions in the Kulakkaya and Kemerköprü Forest Management Chieftaincies of the Giresun Regional Directorate ...

Forest engineers and forest rangers fulfill the forest management activities considering the principle of efficiency and sustainability in Turkey. Forestry activities that forest rangers prioritized for each season were questioned in the study in accordance with the purpose of forest enterprises....

Forest fragmentation is the separation or division of large forests into smaller units. Areas with non-forest lands significantly threaten the health, function, and value of the remaining forest. This study describes the effects of fragmentation on diversity of forest in the city of Istanbul. We...

Understanding forest dynamics under varying management intensification is a crucial step for designing and implementing sustainable forest management scenarios. One way to assess the sustainability is to evaluate the long-term supply of ecosystem services (ES) with some performance indicators. This ...

The pale tussock moth, Calliteara pudibunda, makes periodic outbreaks in Europe. The species made an unusual outbreak between 2018 and 2019 in Bursa, Turkey. The aim of this study is to investigate occurrence of any previous outbreak of the species in Turkey, and possible relationship among the ...

Conflicts among stakeholders may arise during the provision of ecosystem services in a forest landscape. Forest policies, regulations and stakeholders' behaviors have different effects on the governance and delivery of ecosystem services. The interests of actors for ecosystem services were mapped,...

Forest resources in Turkey, according to the principles of ecosystem-based, multiple-use management approach, forest management chief/planning units are governed by forest management plans. Forest management planning process involves taking inventory, preparing the database with Geographic...