tailieunhanh - Forest management issues of the southern United States and comparisons with Turkey

Most of the forest area in the southern United States has been cleared, regrown, purchased, and sold several times over the last 200 years, and forest management practices generally focus on wood production. Agricultural expansion, use, and the abandonment of land have been the major forces behind land use change, and now human population expansion is a major issue. | Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Research Article Turk J Agric For (2013) 37: 83-96 © TÜBİTAK doi: Forest management issues of the southern United States and comparisons with Turkey 1 1 1 1 2 3, Pete BETTINGER , Jacek SIRY , Chris CIESZEWSKI , Krista L. MERRY , Hayati ZENGİN , Ahmet YEŞİL * 1 Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602 Georgia, USA 2 Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, Düzce University, Konuralp, Düzce, Turkey 3 Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, İstanbul University, 34473 Bahçeköy, İstanbul, Turkey Received: Accepted: Published Online: Printed: Abstract: Most of the forest area in the southern United States has been cleared, regrown, purchased, and sold several times over the last 200 years, and forest management practices generally focus on wood production. Agricultural expansion, use, and the abandonment of land have been the major forces behind land use change, and now human population expansion is a major issue. The land tenure system of the United States has allowed individuals and companies to acquire, use, and sell land since the time of European colonization; thus, private ownership of land dominates the southern region. However, new private, corporate, nonindustrial entities have arisen in the last 20 years, mainly as a result of tax policies and changes in industrial business organizations. While in Turkey planning systems are centralized, these systems vary by landowner group in the southern United States. They range from those that are relatively absent (nonindustrial private landowners) to those that are very formal (national forests). The management of forests in the southern United States is also guided by a number of federal, state, and local policies rather than a single enterprise plan, and these policies affect .