Control of the natural forest dynamics on old agricultural and grazing land in the mediterranean region

Abstract

The control of forest extensions requires a sound knowledge of the plant dynamics which contributed to them. The management of these young forests is based on a diagnosis of the future population: quantity, regularity of the distribution and quality of the trees, the latter often being mediocre in the first generation. Several approaches are then possible from non-intervention to a complete cut prior to artificial reforesting over the whole area. All depends on the possibilities of the location, the importance of reforesting in that area, the existing financial resources, the wishes of the proprietors and, to a great extent, on the availability of forest control advisers.