An environmental assessment of methods and technologies for complex reforestation and forest management, promising in the conditions of North-West Russia

Abstract

The aim of the project is a forest-ecological assessment of modern methods and technologies of forest cultivation, care and use of forest products, necessary in the changing economic relations in the forest complex. The main attention is paid to clearcuts, thinning and integrated forest management. Tasks of the research are defined, the program and ways of the project implementation are outlined. The main tasks include studying the reaction of forest ecosystems to economic impact of thinning and thinning, complex and chemical methods of care, reforestation operations; development of principles of control and correction of the recommended methods of economic impact on forest ecosystems; selection of the most efficient technologies, optimal options for their combinations in forest growing and forest use systems; preparation of practical recommendations for the exploitation of coniferous and coniferous-leaved plantations in the southern taiga in modern economic conditions; use of the results of research in the educational process in training forestry specialists.