The needs of information at the regional level: experience from a manager

Abstract

At the regional level, new duties are developing in association with the carrying out of a sustainable forest management policy. They will increase our needs of information in the field of forest management planning. Though they receive more and more informations, the key actors of the sector are facing difficulties of different natures associated to them, mainly because of the dispersal and the heterogeneity of sources, but also because of management and conservation of informations problems. On the other hand, statistics are lacking in such domains as forest roads, silvicultures practiced, management consulting and poplar transformation, as well as scientific references are missing e.g. about poplar silviculture and environment, management of unevenaged forest, and economical data on the value of forests. It is then important to develop the communication between producers and users of information in order to enhance the relevance of information for the forest planners' needs.