, 2003).
The combination of the complexity of the forest model and economic needs from forest products results in the need for a greater marriage of ecology, statistics, economics, and land and forestry management. There are several connections between forest and ecosystem management. By planning and researching forest growth and forest stand tending this industry can form the basis for various political guidelines and policies to ensure that timber resources are available for future generations. The forests also provide hundreds of benefits to many people living in forested areas across the world. These include thousands of jobs, lumber, paper products, clean air, water filtration and many recreational opportunities. In order to ensure that these benefits will exist for future use, studies of the growth rates of tended and untended trees are carried out. For example, trees can be thinned out (removing unwanted or less desirable trees) allowing the best trees to grow at a faster rate. In other cases, there are areas where trees are not naturally growing; new forests can be easily established by planting seedlings and protecting them from insects, various diseases and weeds. These activities are referred to as silviculture.
The treatments used to cultivate stands to achieve their full potential id stand tending. The objective of stand tending is to evaluate and develop methods and management tools that will improve the cost, quality, and environmental capability of the forest sector. Currently in Nova Scotia both small wood-lot owners and commercial landowners have conducted research on silvicultural operations. This includes developing alternative regulation management strategies; commercial thinning in previously treated stands and developing techniques to maximize the value of the underutilized species.
The only way we will be able to adequately manage our forests for future need is to optimize econometric measures looking at system wide issues and appropriate forest management issues.
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Buongiorno, J., et.al. (2003). The Global Forest Products Model: Structure, Estimations,
and Applications. Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academics.
Buongiono, J., Gilless, J. (2003). Decision Methods for Forest Resource Management.
San Diego: Academic Press.
