Lessons Learned from Social Forestry Policy in Java Forest: Shaping the Way Forward for New Forest Status in ex-Perhutani Forest Area by Andita Aulia Pratama

“…Forest for Special Purpose (KHDTK) Getas – Ngandong was chosen as the study case since it offers striking issue in social forestry program in the past and the outlook for the new forest status. This paper attempted to identify the policy learning from the past forest resource arrangement i.e., social forestry policy for the new forest status outlook. …”
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A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Yunnan Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, China by Shuo Liu, Zhimin Li, Wenguang Duan, Mian Hou, Dingqi Rao

“…A new forest-dwelling species of the Cyrtodactylus chauquangensis group is described from southwestern Yunnan Province, China. …”
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Les Autochtones, le bien-être collectif et la rationalité gouvernementale; une réflexion théorique en forêt publique au Québec. by Denis Blouin, Jean-François Bissonnette, Luc Bouthillier

“…The rationality of the state at work in the governance of public forests greatly limits the ability of indigenous communities to put new forest models into practice. The findings of the Mi'gmaq of Gespeg's commitment to forestry, as well as the difficulties encountered in implementing their community forest are the starting point for shedding light on the rationality that governs the use of Quebec's public land. …”
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Forest Plantations and Water Consumption: A Strategy for Hydrosolidarity by W. P. Lima, R. Laprovitera, S. F. B. Ferraz, C. B. Rodrigues, M. M. Silva

“…It involved the identification of saturated areas in the catchment, based essentially on topographic analysis, as a tool to help in zoning of the new forest plantation, with the objective of improving the flow of water to downstream users, as well as to avoid water quality changes. …”
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Evaluation of Land Use Changes before and after Iraq and Iran's War (Case Study: Ilam Watershed) by Norodin Rostami, Batol Navrouzi, Taherh Jafari

“…The increase of the forest cover in the last period can also be related to new forest planting area in parks around and within the city by forest, range and watershed organization and also municipality. …”
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Patterns of natural regeneration of pine forests in the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine by Volodymyr P. Pasternak, Tetiana S. Pyvovar, Anna V. Garmash

“…Natural regeneration in pine-dominated stands is characterized by an age of 4–8 years and a low number of plants per hectare (1,000 [500–2,000]), with few plots containing enough regeneration (over 3,000 plants per hectare) to form a new forest stand without additional planting. The regeneration in the plots varies by species composition: pure Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), pure English oak (Quercus robur L.), pine-oak mix in different proportions with accompanying species (Silver birch (Betula pendula Roth.), Small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata Mill.), or Scots elm (Ulmus glabra Huds.) or without any accompanying species. …”
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Contribution of NGO’s and Private Sector to Natural Forest Conservation of Nyugwe National Park Rwanda. by Sabbas, Duhayimana .A.

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Forest Futures in the Making: Legal Infrastructures and Multispecies Speculation in Planning Climate-Adaptable Forests by Irene van Oorschot

“…In this article, I trace how these seductive visions are materialized in practices of planning and planting new forests. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with practising foresters in the Dutch National Forestry Agency, this piece tries to tell smaller, unheroic understories of new forests in the making. …”
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