1. 10.2 How Should We Manage and Sustain Forests?
By: Maggie Seibert, Sarah Hose, Claire Checovich, Ali Guse, and Bernie Johnson
Mod 8

2. Solutions to sustainable forestry:
Identify and protect forest areas high in biodiversity
Rely more on selective cutting and strip cutting
No clear-cutting on steep slopes
No logging of old-growth forests
Sharply reduce road building into uncut forest areas

3. Solutions continued
Leave most standing dead trees and fallen timber for wildlife habitat and nutrient recycling
Plant tree plantations primarily on deforested and degraded land
Certify timber grown by sustainable methods
Include geological services of forests in estimating their economic value

4. How can forest fires be better managed?
Set contained surface fires to remove flammable small trees and underbrush.
Allow unplanned fires to burn if they are not out of control to remove flammable underbrush and trees.
Protect houses in fire-prone areas by thinning around them, and eliminating the use of flammable materials.
Clear away fire-prone plants in vulnerable forest areas under careful environmental controls.

5. Kenaf
Kenaf: Hibiscus Cannabinus; a plant native in southern Asia, kenaf is used in seed oils and for cosmetics. The kenaf plant is also used to make paper. Kenaf is most commonly used for its fiber to make rope, twine, cloth, and paper. Also, the fatty acids found in kenaf are important in reducing cholesterol and heart diseases.

6. Kenaf

7. The Promise of Kenaf for Forestry
Will yield more paper (per hectare) than normal tree farms
Needs less chemicals (pesticides/herbicides), which will protect the environment
Using less chemicals than tree farms protects the environment
great benefits (easier to grow, less chemicals, etc.) make it a better solution for paper in the future

8. Reducing Tropical Deforestation
Reduce fuelwood demand
Help new settlers in tropical forests learn how to practice small-scale sustainable agriculture and forestry
Sustainably harvest renewable resources
Strip cutting
Debt-for-Nature swaps
Conservation concessions

9. Reducing Deforestation continued
Gentler harvesting methods by loggers
Rehabilitate degraded areas
Clamp down on illegal logging
CONSUMERS:
Use wood substitutes (bamboo)
Use recycled waste lumber
Buy only products that are certified as sustainable

10. Sources