The adaptation measures required by the more and more obvious consequences of climate change in forests represent a major challenge also for the public forestry service. With adaptation of forest management and adjustment of the entire forestry response to the challenges of the climatically...

Various methods of thinning forest stands are common in Europe. These are partly a response to diverse management objectives, partly due to tradition and cultural context. With environmental changes, rapidly transforming socio-economic conditions, and a general decline in forest management,...

The study was limited to the system analysis of the current forest management planning system, showing the methodological imperfections like the unsuitability of the plan types' contents, the incoherency of forest management (FM) regions' and units' plans, and contrasting information and...

The Forest Act allows vehicles to be driven in the forest outside of forest roads for the purpose of forest management or rescue of persons or property. The vehicles and machinery intended for these tasks are very diverse, both in their form and in the dimensions and quality requirements of the...

In the last 25 years, forest management planning has been rationalized and updated. The control sampling method in the entire Slovenia has been introduced, a considerable progress in acquiring, storing and processing data on forests and their management has been achieved, contents of forest plans...

We investigated the possibility of activating private forest management through business cooperation within "forest lease" and "forest management" business models between private forest owners (PFOs) and forest service providers. By surveying PFOs (n = 205) and forest service providers (n = 14), we ...

The current system of forest functions, basically introduced by the Forest Act of 1993, needs to be upgraded as there are too many functions and their contents are often duplicated. At the time of the first mapping of forest functions, forestry relied mainly on its own spatial layers, but today...

This paper on forest management planning in Slovenia aims to provide alternatives to the present forest management planning system, assess their adequacy and costs and compare them with the current system. In addition to the present system, six new alternative systems and five adequate types of ...

Forest development models predict development of trees and forest stands according to tree, stand, site, and forest management factors. Due to complex nature of forest ecosystems and long production cycles, forest development modelling is an important feature of forest management. Stand models have ...

The generally adopted standpoint is that we reduce the risks in forest management through close-to-nature management. There are good examples of management and indirect proofs confirming this standpoint, however. there is a lack of scientific studies confirming it based on quantitative analyses. In ...