Short history of forest management planning in Romania | Scurt istoric al amenajării pădurilor din România

English. This paper is a literature review, aiming to present a short history of forest management planning (FMP) in Romania. The first part is focused on the development of FMP worldwide. The second part describes the occurrence of FMP in Romania, being divided into four different phases, according to the main historical changes that influenced the evolution of forestry and FMP: before 1918, 1918- 1947, 1947-1989 and after 1989. Before 1918, the Romanian FMP system was mainly based on elements from French and German forestry. After the Great Union of 1918, the first concerns arose for the creation of a unitary FMP system but, with  some adaptation to local conditions, it was mainly based on the FMP system applied before 1918. Only 39% of Romanian forests were managed based on a forest management plan in 1947. The apogee of FMP development in Romania occurred between 1947 and 1989: after forest nationalization in 1948, a huge effort was allocated for the FMP of all Romanian forests, according to a new and unitary national FMP system. Thus, till 1956, there were produced forest management plans for all Romanian forests. This system was periodically updated and improved and a lot of research was performed in this field between 1947 and 1989. After 1989, the FMP system was adapted according to the ownership changes that occurred in the new political context. Other main changes refer to the complete computerized processing of all data collected within the FMP activity and, mainly after 2010, the use of GIS for producing the maps attached to each forest management plan.

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