Forestry

Forestry is the art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources. Silviculture, a related science, involves the growing and tending of trees and forests. Modern forestry generally concerns itself with assisting forests to provide timber as raw material for wood products; wildlife habitat; natural water quality regulation; recreation; landscape and community protection; employment; aesthetically appealing landscapes; and a 'sink' for atmospheric carbon dioxide. A practitioner of forestry is known as a forester.

See also

• Aldo Leopold
• backpacking (wilderness)
• botany
• conservation biology
• ecological succession
• Gifford Pinchot
• list of forestry topics
• logging
• old growth forest
• paper
• park
• plants
• silviculture
• timber
• urban forestry
• University of Constantinople {medieval}