Single family economy
The single stem economy is an intense and at the same time the original form of forestry are taken in for timber only individual trees in a forest with a very heterogeneous age structure. Today it is practiced as a simple form of use, especially in tropical countries, while in boreal and nemoral forests in the northern hemisphere, the high forest dominates. The individual tribe's economy is one of the pillars of nature-friendly forest management and is therefore aware in Germany in a few private forests since the end of the 19th century as a continuous forest , for example in the form of the selection forest exercised.
Due to the fact that only single logs are used and the concentration of forest management measures on certain trees, this type of forest management is often incompatible with generally used methods. Forest planning is also made more difficult because tools such as yield tables are tailored to age group forests. End uses are not limited to delimited areas of the forest, but take place in a moderate and often distributed manner over the entire area. The individual log management is therefore associated with a comparatively high operational expenditure and is only profitable if the wood produced in this way generates high yields.
When single-stem management is used in tropical countries, this represents a simple and extensive form of using natural forests in contrast to natural forest management. Only the few very valuable trees in a forest are cut down selectively. In this case, forest planning does not usually take place, and an inventory of the tree species present there is also omitted. For this reason, it is not necessarily sustainable, especially since illegal logging by third parties is made possible due to the infrastructure created for the use of the forests for individual logs .
literature
- Peter Burschel , Jürgen Huss : Outline of the silviculture. A guide for study and practice . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Parey, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8263-3045-5
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Burschel, Peter and Huss, Jürgen: Grundriß des Waldbau. A guide for study and practice. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Parey, Berlin. 1999. pp. 177f. ISBN 3-8263-3045-5