Outline of forestry
Forest management plays an essential role in the creation and modification of habitats and affects ecosystem services provisioning.
Silviculture – practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values.
Silviculture also focuses on making sure that the treatment(s) of forest stands are used to preserve and to better their productivity.
An estimate of the value and possible uses of timber is an important part of the broader information required to sustain ecosystems.
The term is sometimes used in a narrow sense to mean moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard.
This map shows the locations of forest biomes (taiga, etc.) in relation to the other biomes of the world.
Two
USFS
foresters discussing firefighting tactics.
An increment borer with common
drinking straws
, a cost-effective manner often used to hold derived cores.
A cable logging setup in
Germany
(1988).
"Winter forest," painting by Kwok Hei (郭熙), Song Dynasty, China
Former Academy of Mining and Forestry, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
Elephant logging in Burma, 1945
European Forest Institute, Central European Regional Office, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Students from the Biltmore Forest School (USA), inspecting a forest rail line in Germany, c. 1912
Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, canopy walk
Increment borer cores of
Pinus sylvestris
, whose varying rates of annual tree growth are in response to external environmental conditions.
