Liaoning relaxes forest harvesting restrictions

Shenyang, June 24 (Xinhua Xiao) Liaoning Province recently determined the overall goal of forest harvesting management reform, in order to finally realize the change of forest harvesting from index control to sustainable forest management. The reform will take the lead in 16 counties (cities) listed as the National Forest harvesting management reform pilot. The reporter learned that the reform mainly involved 4 aspects, of which 3 aspects of forest harvesting restrictions have been relaxed.　　In the area of forest harvesting quota management, Liaoning Province decided that the logging of non-wood forest land should not be included in the quota management; for private plots and individual trees in front of the house can be independently harvested, the consumption structure and control index of forest harvesting can be reset without breaking the total quota. There will also be changes in the way forest harvesting is managed. Liaoning Province will be issued according to the Forest management Plan and classification of the issuance of forest harvesting permits, to make the forest owner "five years, ten years early know" of the felling disposal right, and to cut down the age limit of cutting, according to the different cultivation target and management direction, and to limit the cutting age of each tree species; All logging indicators can be carried forward to subsequent years　　To change the forest and forest harvesting management methods with specific protective functions such as farmland shelterbelt, and to implement the logging management mechanism based on planning control. Liaoning Province also simplified the process of forest harvesting approval, eliminate unnecessary forest harvesting and approval links, eliminate human relationship indicators, black-boxes operation; The simple design of cutting area of artificial commercial forest, change the way of the past unification according to the control of the volume of forest tree and the quantity of timber, control the area of the cutting operation mainly,　　The volume control of the selective cutting operation was mainly controlled. The other side of the reform is to build a sustainable forest management system. Liaoning Province will develop and promote different forest management models by compiling county-level forest management plan and forest management plan, and gradually form the management system under the guidance of forest classified management strategy.