Forestry law

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Forestry laws govern activities in designated forest lands, most commonly with respect to forest management and timber harvesting.^[1][2] Forestry laws generally adopt management policies for public forest resources, such as multiple use and sustained yield.^[3] Forest management is split between private and public management, with public forests being sovereign property of the State. Forestry laws are now considered an international affair.^{[4] [5]}

Governmental agencies are generally responsible for planning and implementing forestry laws on public forest lands, and may be involved in forest inventory, planning, and conservation, and oversight of timber sales.^[6] Forestry laws are also dependent on social and economic contexts of the region in which they are implemented.^[7] The development of scientific forestry management is based on the precise measurement of the distribution and volume of wood in a given parcel, the systematic felling of trees, and their replacement by standard, carefully aligned rows of mono-cultural plantations that could be harvested at set times.^[8]