Waldrichtplanung im Kanton Zug | Forest management planning in Canton Zug

2005 ◽  
Vol 156 (7) ◽  
pp. 226-229
Author(s):  
Werner Heynisch
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
The Government

In order to meet the population's current and future needs,forest management planning needs to ensure the sustainable development of the forest in the long term. Basic conditions for a sustainable development of the forest are set out in officially binding planning regulations. Goals and measures are established in the area of wood production, natural hazards, forest conservation, recreational activities and environment to fulfil the tasks stipulated in the planning regulations. In its turn, the forest planning map shows those forests that are especially important for natural hazard protection, forest conservation and recreational activities. Areas with a «low level of integration» are designated on the map. The adoption of the forest management plan by the government or the Cantonal Council is outstanding.

Monitoring changes in forest resource advisory groups’ composition and evaluations of perceptions of public participation effectiveness: a case of Ontario’s Local Citizens Committees

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1866-1872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Len M. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

Effective public participation is a key part of sustainable forest management on publicly owned lands. However, long-term monitoring data that seek to measure effectiveness of public participation in forest management planning is lacking. Here, measures based on attitudes and satisfaction ratings associated with suspected criteria of public participation effectiveness were developed and applied to forest resource advisory group members from Ontario, Canada. Using data from four social surveys (2001, 2004, 2010, and 2014), advisory group members were, on average, satisfied and held positive attitudes towards the advisory group, their participation in the group, and forest management planning. In many instances, these positive evaluations increased from 2001 to 2014, especially for statements related to fairness. One concern about Local Citizens Committees (LCCs) related to their composition. Advisory group members were male dominated (about 88%) and were increasingly overrepresented by individuals between 50 and 69 years old in 2014 (67%). Given that male and female LCC members held different perceptions of the effectiveness of some public participation criteria, these concerns suggest that composition of LCCs might impair the ability of the groups to consider all viewpoints related to forest management planning. Finally, the research illustrates the importance of designing and collecting long-term monitoring data to understand how evaluations of public participation and composition of participants changes over time.

Integrating multi-discipline teams into forest planning: A case study in west-central Alberta

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D Simpson ◽  
Ted Gooding
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Penalty Cost ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Supply Analysis ◽  
Forest Values

Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. completed its 2007–2016 detailed forest management plan for its forest management agreement area by engaging multi-discipline expertise to better manage forest values. Disciplines were formed into impact assessment groups, which were charged with developing indicators and targets for identified values and objectives and with constructing models to predict the impacts of forest management activities. Three different modeling approaches were used in developing the plan and the best results were obtained by integrating indicators directly into the forecasting model even when the indicators were simple versions of complex models. Integrating indicators into the forecasting model reduced the penalty cost on other indicators, permitted the model to find better solutions, provided almost immediate feedback to the plan development team, permitted more scenarios to be investigated, and provided a better understanding of the dynamics and tradeoffs. The other two techniques used in the DFMP involved the assessment of forecasted scenarios with more complex discipline specific models, which provided more detailed information about the indicators. Key words: forecasting, forest management planning, Patchworks, forest management modeling, timber supply analysis, trade-off analysis, VOIT

scholarly journals The Concept of Regulating Forest Management in a Region Subject to High Environmental Pressure

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Borecki ◽  
Łukasz Łopiński ◽  
Wojciech Kędziora ◽  
Michał Orzechowski ◽  
Roman Wójcik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Stand Structure ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Environmental Pressure ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Forest Use

In modern forestry, the complexity of the planning process is increasing, specifically in the context of the sustainable use of forest resources and its adaptation to climate changes. This article presents the concept of forest use regulation promoting the sustainable forestry development in forest management planning. A method for defining a synthetic criterion of assessing important features of stand structure was proposed, which would enable the classification of stands in terms of needs and the urgency of their transformation (reconstruction) or suitability for longer standing. As a result, such a concept may ensure the preservation of the relative uniformity of logging use and the improvement of age structure as well as an increase of natural values of the forest, regardless of a stand’s age. The concept was tested on a large forest complex (over 0.5 million hectares) subjected to intense environmental pressure (Silesian Region in Poland). We prepared long-term individualistic development forecasts, separately for area and volume. Based on this, we followed the cutting uniformity principle in the analysed time period by calculating a long-term average of cutting allowance. It was determined by averaging the projected usage size in moving window and eventually was adopted as the cutting upper limit in the whole analysed period. The proposed size of cuts in each period resulted from the relation between the average value and the forecast. Three sets of stands of the differentiated urgency of interventions were distinguished: I—well-stocked and stable stands (no need of intervention)—55% of stands area, II – acceptable stands (not urgent intervention needed)—35% and III—poor stands (urgent intervention needed)—10%. This concept joins top-down and bottom-up approach of cutting uniformity that focuses stand’s status instead of its age or dimensions.

scholarly journals Implementing the conditional value at risk approach for even-flow forest management planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Eyvindson ◽  
Zhuo Cheng
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning

Deciding on a plan of action for a forest holding involves a significant amount of uncertainty. As forest planning involves the use and extraction of resources, uncertainty lies in both the future development of the forest (biological uncertainty) and the development of the market for forest-based products (economic uncertainty). Additionally, natural hazards can be a source of unexpected losses. In traditional forest management planning, the most common way to deal with uncertainty is to ignore it. Growth models are used that are assumed to be correct, and timber prices are assumed to be held constant. By ignoring the fact that these models provide only one representation of what may happen, the forest owner may get an overly optimistic (or pessimistic) view of the potential value of the forest holding. Through a stochastic programming formulation, these uncertainties can be modelled directly into the optimization formulation, and a management plan can be created that incorporates the risk preferences of the decisionmaker. This is highlighted through an example that maximizes the net present value of the holding while minimizing the conditional value at risk of obtaining a stated even flow of income.

scholarly journals Forest Management Plan in Domogt Sharyn Gol, Mongolia is Elaborated on Ecological and Sustainable Principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Smola ◽  
Antonín Kusbach ◽  
Tadeáš Štěrba ◽  
Radim Adolt ◽  
Michal Nečas
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Natural Regeneration ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Forest Management Plan

Abstract A forest management plan based on ecological principles and forest management sustainability was elaborated for the Domogt Sharyn Gol Company, Mongolia. We presented possibility of use of principles and methods traditionally utilized in forest management planning in the Czech Republic. A used methodology was adjusted for the forestry legislature in Mongolia. A stratification of site characteristics and the forest development type concept was used as a framework for assessment of a forest property state via an operational forest inventory. A randomly generalized network of 354 inventory plots on the total area of 3 194 ha with spacing of 300 × 300 m was established for measurements of tree species, natural regeneration and a volume of lying deadwood. We produced a text, table, graph, figure and map material consisted of areal, tree species and wood volume structuring including calculation of decenal logging, thinning treatments, plantation activities and natural regeneration support. This forest management plan provides a feasible perspective not only towards immediate commercial benefits but also towards sustainability of forest yield and other ecological forest functions. This way of management planning is also a save way towards mitigation of current environmental issues in a Mongolian forest landscape.

scholarly journals Embedding science and innovation in forest management: Recent experiences at Millar Western in west-central Alberta

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laird Van Damme ◽  
Peter N Duinker ◽  
Dennis Quintilio
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Plan ◽  
Science Innovation

Research from scientists embedded within Millar Western’s forest management planning process over the last 14 years was enabled by strong corporate leadership, cooperation by Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development, and funding by the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta. Results of the supporting research are described in the articles that follow and are important contributions to Canada’s commitment to sustainable forest management (SFM). The process is as noteworthy as the results and is the subject of this paper. When scientists and practitioners work closely together in developing a forest management plan, as they have in this case, there is a much greater opportunity for science-based emergent strategies to be created and applied through the personal interactions among scientists and practitioners. For example, input from the science-based collaborators influenced the harvest schedule in the detailed forest management plan to minimize negative effects on water flow, biodiversity and fire risk. This approach to SFM is one of many being developed in Alberta. The diversity of input has clear benefits, not the least of which is the maintenance of innovation and intellectual enterprise in support of SFM. Key words: forest management planning, forest science, innovation, Alberta, biodiversity, timber supply, guidelines

On the risk of systematic drift under incoherent hierarchical forest management planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Paradis ◽  
Luc LeBel ◽  
Sophie D'Amours ◽  
Mathieu Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
System State ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Game Theoretic

In theory, linkages between hierarchical forest management planning levels ensure coherent disaggregation of long-term wood supply allocation as input for short-term demand-driven harvest planning. In practice, these linkages may be ineffective, and solutions produced may be incoherent in terms of volume and value-creation potential of harvested timber. Systematic incoherence between planned and implemented forest management activities may induce drift of forest system state (i.e., divergence of planned and actual system state trajectories), thus compromising credibility and performance of the forest management planning process. We describe hierarchical forest management from a game-theoretic perspective and present an iterative two-phase model simulating interaction between long- and short-term planning processes. Using an illustrative case study, we confirm the existence of a systematic drift effect, which we attribute to ineffective linkages between long- and short-term planning. In several simulated scenarios, the planning process fails to ensure long-term wood supply sustainability, fails to reliably meet industrial fiber demand over time, and exacerbates incoherence between wood supply and fiber demand over several planning iterations. We show that manipulating linkages between long- and short-term planning processes can reduce incoherence and describe future work on game-theoretic planning process model formulations that may improve hierarchical planning process performance.

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