M.S Forest Management and Operations

Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical aspects, such as silviculture, protection, and forest regulation. This includes management for timber, aesthetics, recreation, urban values, water, wildlife, inland and nearshore fisheries, wood products, plant genetic resources, and other forest resource values.Management objectives can be for conservation, utilisation, or a mixture of the two. Techniques include timber extraction, planting and replanting of different species, building and maintenance of roads and pathways through forests, and preventing fire. Forest operations means the processes involved in establishing and protecting forests, or growing or harvesting or the cartage of Timber, and includes the construction of roads and other works connected with establishing forests, or growing or harvesting Timber.