Reformă, contrareformă și fără-fond formă

The paper debriefs the current debates on the forest management and\udforest policy where environmental NGOs and logging companies are fighting:\udone the one hand, NGOs intervene in many technical issues related to the forest\udmanagement planning and applied forestry where their expertise is patchy and,\udon the other hand, the logging companies accuse the nature protection measures,\udsome of them adopted in due time, like the ones related to Natura 2000 network,\udwhere the management plans have been approved and endorsed. Since the stakes\udare very high the unprofessional messages delivered by many NGOs do not receive\udtechnically correct replies from the forest managers either because they\udare not able to communicate in simple words or simply because they are afraid\udof being labeled timber thieves: this defenseless attitude is not appropriate at all\udbecause the media is still talking about illegal clearfellings in spite of the very\udtough preventive measures undertaken by the Forest guards. Most of the allegations\udof illegal cuttings rest on the volume estimated by the NFI (the difference\udbetween the total yield and the allowable cut) while the same NFI allegedly gives\udhigh hopes for even higher allowable cut due to the first estimation of the total\udgrowth. The fake news here is that the total growth refers to the whole forest area,\udwhile the allowable cut refers to commercial forests only: there is no hint in the\udtotal growth unless the aggregated figure is not split into the two types of forests:\udcommercial and not commercial (i.e. strictly protected forest areas). The core\udmessage delivered by the article is addressed to the management planning system,\udin charge with setting up the allowable cut and the cutting budgets. Some differences\udbetween the private forests and the public forests shall be made sensible\udin terms of maturity ages when stands of trees are to be harvested. However, it is\udalso explained that reducing the forest rotation with 20 or even 40 years will not\udskyrocket the allowable cut because the reference level of the normal age class\udgoes up and the overplus of harvestable wood will be used to compensate larger\uddeficits brought about by the un-even actual age structure and the higher normal\udage class. The coppice with standards is also supported as a technical solution for\udharvesting more fuel wood for rural population