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Forestry laws govern activities in designated forest lands, most commonly with respect to forest management and timber harvesting.[1][2] Forestry laws generally adopt management policies for public forest resources, such as multiple use and sustained yield.[3] Forest management is split between private and public management, with public forests being sovereign property of the State. Forestry laws are now considered an international affair.[4][5]
Governmental agencies are generally responsible for planning and implementing forestry laws on public forest lands, and may be involved in forest inventory, planning, and conservation, and oversight of timber sales.[6] Forestry laws are also dependent on social and economic contexts of the region in which they are implemented.[7] The development of scientific forestry management is based on the precise measurement of the distribution and volume of wood in a given parcel, the systematic felling of trees, and their replacement by standard, carefully aligned rows of mono-cultural plantations that could be harvested at set times.[8]
^KAIMOWITZ, D. (2003). Forest law enforcement and rural livelihoods. The International Forestry Review, 5(3), 199–210. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43740118
^Enters, Thomas; B. Durst, Patrick; B. Applegate, Grahame; C.S. Kho, Peter; Man, Gary (2001). "29. Policies, strategies and technologies for forest resource protection - William B. Magrath* and Richard Grandalski". Applying Reduced Impact Logging to Advance Sustainable Forest Management. Kuching, Malaysia: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
