Full rotation forest planning and management for multiple values requires deep knowledge of the possible trade-offs or synergies between different practices used throughout stand development, and the values and objectives being managed.
Today’s forestry requires engaging in collaborative or community-based approaches, and can require less technical but fundamentally important knowledge about relationship-building and communication. The technical and experiential knowledge can take a lifetime to acquire, but forest practitioners need to make decisions and participate in processes throughout their career that may require different degrees of familiarity with a range of topics. It is important to establish a shared understanding of what we already know as a key first step in co-creating new knowledge.
The Featured Topic section provides this type of structure and learning experience for existing or emerging “hot topics” for forest practitioners.