Sustained yield natural forest management in Peninsular Malaysia: opportunities for more effective forest practices

Cheah, L. C. (1991) Sustained yield natural forest management in Peninsular Malaysia: opportunities for more effective forest practices. In: Malaysian forestry and forest products research: proceedings of the conference. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 1-15. ISBN 967-9991-563

This paper attempts to argue the case that much more should be done on the ground to ensure sustained yield of our natural forests. Land development policy over the past 35 years in Peninsular Malaysia relegated forestry land use to a low priority and much of the lowland dipterocarp forests where most of the silviculture experiments and treatment were conducted over the years have been cleared for agriculture and other land use. This has resulted in a generation of foresters who are rather ambivalent on natural forest silviculture. Because of this, the opportunity to build on and improve our body of field knowledge in silvics to enhance our standard of forest management on the ground, and at the same time build up an organisation of trained and competent manpower was neither recognised nor optimised. Much ran be achieved today, given government support for forestry. This requires a change in attitude by foresters to re-emphasise natural forest silviculture. There should also be a concerted effort in Research and Development (R & D) to develop proper field procedures for the control of logging and simultaneously train field staff in the strict enforcement of these procedures to effectively implement the Selective Management System (SMS). One sound approach is to adopt the Queensland Selective System (QSS) model despite the fact that logging in the Queensland rain forests has since been banned.

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This paper attempts to argue the case that much more should be done on the ground to ensure sustained yield of our natural forests. Land development policy over the past 35 years in Peninsular Malaysia relegated forestry land use to a low priority and much of the lowland dipterocarp forests where most of the silviculture experiments and treatment were conducted over the years have been cleared for agriculture and other land use. This has resulted in a generation of foresters who are rather ambivalent on natural forest silviculture. Because of this, the opportunity to build on and improve our body of field knowledge in silvics to enhance our standard of forest management on the ground, and at the same time build up an organisation of trained and competent manpower was neither recognised nor optimised. Much ran be achieved today, given government support for forestry. This requires a change in attitude by foresters to re-emphasise natural forest silviculture. There should also be a concerted effort in Research and Development (R & D) to develop proper field procedures for the control of logging and simultaneously train field staff in the strict enforcement of these procedures to effectively implement the Selective Management System (SMS). One sound approach is to adopt the Queensland Selective System (QSS) model despite the fact that logging in the Queensland rain forests has since been banned.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Available at Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. SD235 M3M239 Call Number
AGROVOC Term:	primary forests
AGROVOC Term:	tropical forests
AGROVOC Term:	forest resources
AGROVOC Term:	silviculture
AGROVOC Term:	forest monitoring and assessment
AGROVOC Term:	foresters
AGROVOC Term:	sustainable forest management
Geographical Term:	Malaysia
Depositing User:	Nor Hasnita Abdul Samat
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2025 15:48
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2025 15:48
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1022

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