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Generally, any measure to prevent deforestation will also reduce forest degradation. Specifically for degradation, Greenpeace [9] proposes: Attaining a responsible forest products industry; Sustainable forest management; Curbing emissions of sulfur dioxide (to combat acid rain) would also reduce forest degradation for this cause.
Forest security in Lithuania. Forest protection is a branch of forestry which is concerned with the preservation or improvement of a forest and prevention and control of damage to forest by natural or man made causes like forest fires, plant pests, and adverse climatic conditions (global warming).
The Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project (AFR) [29] is a decade long, science-based project launched in 2010 with the intent of reducing severe wildfire risk, but also protecting water quality, old-growth forest, wildlife, people, property, and the overall quality of life within the Ashland watershed.
The management has to obtain healthy and stable forest systems that produce wood with a minimum human intervention. The products to obtain, other than wood, are fauna habitats, biodiversity, recreational, aesthetics, and water management. The human action has the object of accelerating natural processes, but not substitute them.
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Forest recovery resulting in net increases in forest extent can occur by means of spontaneous regeneration, active planting, or both. [11] [12]There are two main paths in reforestation, one emerging from economic development and another from forest scarcity. [12]
Land use change, especially in the form of deforestation, is the second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, after the burning of fossil fuels. [4] [5] Greenhouse gases are emitted from deforestation during the burning of forest biomass and decomposition of remaining plant material and soil carbon.
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