I work for a cooperative that aims to provide forest owners with expertise and even technical means to manage their forest and make a profit off it. I never imagined how interesting this could be.
I want to specialize in sylviculture (planning and cartography) because that's what I prefer, but I could've picked harvesting site organization, supply chain management, timber trading, among other things. It's a diverse field of intertwined skillsets.
>>14819212/3rds of the forest surface in France is private forest, which is dedicated as much as possible to production and profitability.
Actually, forests in the US have a higher % of "primitive" forests than France, which has none. Since a long time ago in Europe, forests were exploited and managed to the point where most of the forests in Europe today didn't exist 10k years ago, because we found traces of settlements and villages. In Europe, 10k years ago, most of the forests that exist today did NOT exist back then, and forests existed somewhere else.
https://youtu.be/zVPUFMwm73YIt's less the case in America.
>>1481264>learning the patterns of planting made walking in forests i loved feel like walking in a wheat fieldI don't see the problem desu. Managing forests has become part of human life a long, long time ago. We needed to maintain paths in order to move and collect berries and shit, and hunt game as well.
>>1481275Having a healthy and ecologically balanced forest is the best way to ensure maximum productivity. "productivists" who fuck up their land's health are... just retarded.
