Reliability of information on the growing stock as the base of real forest management planning

Abstract

The reliability of information on the growing stock state is the basic prerequisite of real forest management plans. In this sense, practical works on forest management, including data processing, which creates the information base in forestry, should be carried out in the most correct way, disregarding the numerous problems (subjective and objective) which result from the conditions in which the works are performed. Improvisations in any phase of the works, as illustrated by the example presented in this paper, create a wrong idea on the forest state, which further results in unreal and inadequate forest management plans. In all situations in which the data in plan documents do not agree with the real forest state, disregarding the increased financial expenditures, the works on forest management should be revised and plan documents should be made. In this way, we eliminate the potential consequences which would result from the realisation of the planed works based on unreal forest state, which would be reflected both in the economic and in the ecological senses, without the possibility to remove the consequences in a short time period.