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resource management? The term ‘multiple resource management’ of natural forests is used to emphasise the multi-functional character of forest ecosystems, i.e., the long-term maintenance of their production, regulatory and recreational functions. Sustainable forest management refers to the process of managing permanent forest land to achieve one or more clearly specified productive and/or ecological management objectives without undue reduction of its inherent values and future productivity, and without undesirable effects on the physical and social environments. Natural forest management is defined as the management of primary or secondary forests for sustained production of timber and/or other products in which forest cover is maintained indefinitely. Secondary forest is the woody vegetation which develops on land where primary forest has been cleared, usually for agricultural purposes.
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