Keywords
conservation, trees, forestland, reforestation, selective logging, watershed protection, runoff, soil erosion, forest products, economic productivity, environmental protection, regeneration, biodiversity protection, long-term management, ecosystem services, sustainable logging, forest ecosystem management, forest stewardship, nontimber products, forests, afforestation, forest management, green accounting, forest age, forest structure, patch size, patch isolation, fire regime, roads, sensitive species, forest preservation, forest fragmentation, clear-cut, genetic, resources

Sustainable forestry is environmentally friendly, socioeconomically productive, fiscally viable, and politically acceptable to the harvesters of forest products, the processors such as sawmills and pulp-paper makers, the wholesalers and traders, the retailers such as lumberyards, and the end users such as green buyers, green builders, and government agencies. Sustainable forestry is opposed to industrial forestry. Sustainable forestry custom designs forestry practices to bioregion, ecological web, and individual stands; performs green accounting at each stage of the chain-of-custody; considers watershed services and biodiversity as well as cultural values; and provides equitable rewards to individuals, communities and other owners.

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