Establishing sustainable forest management guidelines

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Establishing sustainable forest management
guidelines

• B. Turner and P. Dart

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Revised ITTO criteria for the sustainablemanageme
nt of tropical forests

• Sustainable management of tropical forests
• The process of managing a forest to achieve
• one or more clearly specified objectives of
• management with regard to the production
• of a continuous flow of desired forest products
• and services without undue reduction of its
• inherent values and future productivity and
• without undue undesirable effects on the
• physical and social environment (ITTO, 2005)

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Criteria and indicators

• A criterion is defined as an aspect of forest
  management that is considered important and by
  which sustainable forest management may be
  assessed.
• A criterion is accompanied by a set of related
  indicators and describes a state or situation
  which should be met to comply with sustainable
  forest management. (ITTO, 2005)

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Criteria for SFM

• 1. Enabling conditions for sustainable forest
  management (legal, policy and institutional
  framework)
• 2. Extent and condition of forests (extent of
  forest resources)
• 3. Forest ecosystem health (forest health and
  vitality)
• 4. Forest production (production functions of
  forest resources)
• 5.Biological diversity (biological diversity)
• 6. Soil and water protection (protective
  functions)
• 7.Economic, social and cultural aspects
  (socioeconomic functions)

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Forest planning

• Generally strategic forest plans
• describe the forest area under management
  including the resources, uses and values
• identify the applicable legal requirements and
  other external planning requirements relevant to
  the area
• identify the management objectives of the area
• describe the management strategies, zoning and/or
  prescriptions that will be implemented to achieve
  the objectives and to protect values
• provide opportunities for public comment and
  participation in the planning process
• provide for an appropriate level of monitoring of
  implementation of the plan and for a substantive
  review after five to ten years.
• Extract from Institute of Foresters of
  Australia Forest Policy Statement No. 2.6
  (approved 2006).

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Forest planning process

• A. Define goals and objectives
• B. Identify data requirements and acquire
  missing information
• C. Creatively consider the ways the goals might
  be achieved
• D. Determine the best way to achieve the goals
• E. Map out the best alternative
• F. Determine how to be sure the results are as
  expected 

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Sustainable silviculture harvesting

• Determining a sustainable yield
• The production of forest products in perpetuity,
  ensuring that the harvesting rate does not exceed
  the rate of replacement (natural and/or
  artificial) in a given area over the long term.
  (ITTO, 2005)
• Requires data and models for expected growth
  after operations
• Silvicultural prescriptions possibly
• Clearfelling
• Partial harvesting selection mgmt - low impact
  logging
• Thinning, vine removal, etc to assist growth of
  retained trees
• Enrichment planting to increase proportion of
  desired species