SILV-2025 | The Ultimate Silviculture & Forest
Ecology Mastery Guide (Complete 2025 Edition)
silviculture - The art of producing and tending a forest
or
The application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest.
or
The theory and practice of controlling forest establishment, composition, structure and
growth.
Silvics - Forester way of desribing ecology and biology of the forest
Discuss purpose of silviculture - create and maintain a forest to fulfill the objectives of the
owner and governing society.
Discuss objectives of silviculture - meeting what. is asked of the forest e.g wood, non timber
forest products, ecosystem services and social services
Silvicultural system - A planned formal program of silvicultural extending through the lifetime of
the stand.
- regeneration
- tending (thinning and prunning)
- protecting (fire,disease,insect,windthrow)
-cutting/harvest
why is silviculture both an art and a science - art - knowlege, judgement, intuition
science - clear cut process and answers
, unit of silviculture management - stand - a stand of trees is contiguous and uniform (with the
respect to structure, composition and site) enough to manage as one unit
Unit of Silvicultural management - the forest - a forest is a collection of stands managed as one
unit
what does silviculture use? - biology
ecology
soils
engineering
economics
maths
stats
maturity of tree - sexual - produce seeds
biological - age (ready to harvest)
organising principle - when you do not know what to do so you use previous built up
knowledge
monocyclic system - one reproduction harvest per crop rotation
one age class
one species
polycyclic system - 2 or more reproduction harvests per crop rotation
3 or more age classes
Why are unmanaged reserves needed? - unmanaged reserves allow measurement of "natural"
forest structure(benchmarks)
Ecology Mastery Guide (Complete 2025 Edition)
silviculture - The art of producing and tending a forest
or
The application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest.
or
The theory and practice of controlling forest establishment, composition, structure and
growth.
Silvics - Forester way of desribing ecology and biology of the forest
Discuss purpose of silviculture - create and maintain a forest to fulfill the objectives of the
owner and governing society.
Discuss objectives of silviculture - meeting what. is asked of the forest e.g wood, non timber
forest products, ecosystem services and social services
Silvicultural system - A planned formal program of silvicultural extending through the lifetime of
the stand.
- regeneration
- tending (thinning and prunning)
- protecting (fire,disease,insect,windthrow)
-cutting/harvest
why is silviculture both an art and a science - art - knowlege, judgement, intuition
science - clear cut process and answers
, unit of silviculture management - stand - a stand of trees is contiguous and uniform (with the
respect to structure, composition and site) enough to manage as one unit
Unit of Silvicultural management - the forest - a forest is a collection of stands managed as one
unit
what does silviculture use? - biology
ecology
soils
engineering
economics
maths
stats
maturity of tree - sexual - produce seeds
biological - age (ready to harvest)
organising principle - when you do not know what to do so you use previous built up
knowledge
monocyclic system - one reproduction harvest per crop rotation
one age class
one species
polycyclic system - 2 or more reproduction harvests per crop rotation
3 or more age classes
Why are unmanaged reserves needed? - unmanaged reserves allow measurement of "natural"
forest structure(benchmarks)
