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Under the journal’ heading Restituiri it is reproduced the paper Statistica Pădurilor Statului/Statistics of State Forests elaborated in 1906 by the Ministry of Agriculture. It is the second paper of this type, after the one elaborated in 1899, and presents the state of forests on the Kingdom of Romania inside the borders from the end of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. In contrast to the first inventory of forests that presents exclusively statistical data, with tables, in 240 pages, the present paper containes data presented at the country and counties levels, accompanied by an analysis and an interpretation of these data. In the first part of the paper, entitled General Statistics, there are presented and analysed a series of data concerning the entire forest area of the Kingdom of Romania. In the second part there are presented the environmental framework of the country (geology, relief, hydrographic system, climate, winds) in relation to the forests, and tree species and shrubs that are present in forest flora of the country. In the third part of the paper there are presented statistical data regarding state owned forests (918 825 ha) for wich there were available detailed data and information

Under the coordination of The Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests, about 24000 ha of primeval beech forests located in 8 natural protected area from the Romanian Carpathians were included for inscription into the World Heritage List to extend the „Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany” (1133bis). The extended World Heritage property is proposed to carry the joint new name: „Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe”. Supported by 13 European countries (Romania included), the nomination proposes to establish a transnational serial UNESCO property, with a surface of more that 95000 ha, that reunites the most representative and well preserved beech forests from the natural areal of this species in order to illustrate the ecological process of extension - that is in progress at present - of beech on the European continent. The process of choosing these canditate sites was thought for completing the existent sites and for providing arguments and reflecting better on the extension of species distribution at the level of Europe. At the end of January 2016, Austria, the coordinator country of the nomination process at the international level transmitted the common dossier for the nomination to the committee of evaluation of UNESCO World Heritage List.

The paper summarizes the methodological background and the main outcomes of the FORMIT project (Forest Management Options for Enhancing the Mitigation Potential for European Forest), an FP7 undertaking run by Wageningen University and employing 11 participants (research institutes and universities). Because this research note was published before having the final deliverables approved by the Commission we have confined our presentation the methodological challenges the project team had to dealt with and the main results of the Life Cycle Assessment component, which is by far the most interesting and provocative contribution of the project to drafting a post-Kyoto agenda for forestry. Because many results are based on a very consistent use of rough data coming from national forest inventories, and the Romanian partner had not made use of a great deal of data which might have contributed to a better evaluation of the growth potential of Romanian forests, the methodological background was thoroughly explained in Romanian language.

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