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Close to nature forestry as an important factor of preserving and survival of forests

Since the 18th century, management on the principles of sustainability has been the principal reason for the survival of natural forests and natural management in Central Europe. The goals of natural management focus on tending and regeneration, as well as the production of commercial and non-commercial values, coupled with the maintenance of the optimal natural stand structure, permanent protection and the development of forest soil. Natural management in selection and even-aged forests is based on natural patterns taking place in a virgin forest. Silvicultural treatments are aimed at accelerating these natural processes and achieving a better quality and eternity of forests. Clearcutting as a management method has sunk the respect of forestry as a profession on the European scale. Clearcutting is motivated with economic indicators, where profit has an increasingly dominant role at the detriment of natural forests and their non-commercial functions. Disturbed ecological conditions caused by human activities, as well as air, water and soil pollution are among the factors that affect forest weakening, dieback and decline. To counteract such a condition, a large number of very active and aggressive citizen and political associations are being established. They blame foresters for all the calamities and fiercely oppose any treatments in a forest. They insist on passive or police protection and fight any tending and regeneration treatments, which threatens the quality and survival of forests. Unfortunately, the governments of many countries indulge these groups, allowing the increasingly larger complexes of good quality natural forests to be excluded from management and putting them under protection. Forests devoid of natural management are on the path that leads to their ruin.

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