journal of forest science

In the area of forest policy strategy:
– Qualified pilot studies into the real trends in demand
for wood of deciduous tree species, and into the efficiency
of forest holdings (particularly also to encourage
the association of small forest holdings). In the
CR they are more then 100,000 forest owners with the
forest holding below 2 ha.
– A conceptual political study based, e.g., on National
orestry Programme of the CR to reveal human society’s
participation in the management of forest systems,
resulting in sustainable production of goods and
services desired by the public at large.
OREST ECOSYSTEMS – AN IRREPLACEABLE
COMPONENT O THE ENVIRONMENT
In the area related to the irreplaceable role of forest
ecosystems in the environment, the sub-module dealt
with the identification of principal non-wood-producing
functions beneficial to the public, and therefore purposecontrolled.
As a pre-condition of particular environmental
and social services provided by modern forestry,
special measures should strengthen the desired financial
means to support advisable effects, and suppress or attenuate
undesirable factors.
Various kinds and intensities of goal-oriented nonwood
producing care are needed for 58% of CR’s forest
area, and it also refers to 46% of the area of today’s category
of the commercial forest.
Long-term recommendations
To implement the state forestry and environmental policy:
– To enrich forestry policies with differentiation of various
forest ownership types from the viewpoint of public
interest in the forest mission, and to define clearly
the policy of subsidies, defrayments of costs and recompenses
of activities in favour of public interest.
– In the environmental policy, to consider all forest ecosystems
as an irreplaceable component of the environment,
not only due to their natural essence, but also
due to their managed functions which is generally beneficial
to the inhabited landscape and human society.
To implement the land-use and forestry planning:
– To ensure that regional forest development plans
(RDP) include an offer of forestry services based on
the functional potential of forest ecosystems, and real
public demand for particular environmental and social
services identified by monitored public interest.
Confrontation of the forestry supply with the demands
for particular services will enable the establishment
of general guidelines for forest management and calculations
of capital needed.
– To elaborate a system of links between the conceptual
(Regional orest Development Plan – RDP) and the
working plans (orest Management Plan – MP and
orest Management Outline – MO) so that particular
projects can be proposed by individual owners and administration
of national forests. To facilitate unbiased
judgement of national authorities according to real
needs passed on the projects, and to encourage also
their rational projects taking into account both the efficiency
and correctness of the objectives.
– To ensure that methodologies, instructions, etc. are developed
and compiled for particular functional measures,
and by doing so, to promote real designing by
owners, real public orders, qualified consultancy and
meaningful supervisory activities in the right of recovery
of national authorities.
Short-term recommendation
To amend urgent topics contained in orest Act No.
289/1995, particularly the following ones:
– new conception and application of forest categorisation
as a tool of state forestry policy and administration
(primarily formed as a tool of the forest
management),
– mission and contents of regional forest development
plans (RDP) as common tools of state forestry and
environmental policies,
– reality-reflecting conception of landscape amelioration,
including torrent control, as a service of public
interest in the cultural landscape protection,
– realistic conception of the care for forest ecosystems
in special-category forests, including the forests in
large-scale protected areas of nature conservation.
To analyse and mutually adjust the problem areas in
environmental legislation, which primarily holds for:
– Act 292/1991 on the Czech Environmental Inspection
with the forest protection competence, which are significant
tools in the environmental functions of fo-rests
whose role deserves many-sided activities in comparison
with the general ecosystem conservation,
– final legal solution to the supreme state supervision of
the Ministry of Environment, as amended by orest
Act No. 289/1995, as to the proper application of incentives
resulting from the field operation of the Czech
Environmental Inspection,
– inclusion of particular beneficial-to-public, environmental
and social functions of the forest into the sphere
of active interests of the environmental department,
also with regard to the needs of human-inhabited cultural
landscapes,
– analyses of links between Acts No. 17/1992, 114/1992
and 289/1992 so that their application can be based on
material truth and not only on general axioms and
ideological wishes.
Vladimír K r e è m e r, Bohuslav V i n š et al.
332 J. FOR. SCI., 47, 2001 (7): 331–332