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Study on Policies and Actions Associated with Promotion of Social and Environmental Benefits of Forest (산림공익기능 증진 관련 정책 및 조치에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Soo-Im;Joo, Rin-Won;Kim, Ki-Dong;Kim, Jae-Sung;Jeon, Hyon-Sun;Kim, Jae-Jun;Park, Dong-Kyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.99 no.1
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2010
  • For policies and actions associated promotion of social and environmental benefits of forest in Korea, various polices have been progressed based on newly established ordinances along with full progresses of subdivision of the Forest Law since reorganization of regulatory system by functions focused on the Basic Forestry Act. In these policies, water resource conserving function and national land conserving function which have little close relation to the people's daily life including formation of forest for conservation of water supply and erosion control have continued to be promoted since 1970s. Especially in recently years, the policy of biodiversity conserving function according to importance of health and recreation function and conservation management of forest ecosystem and animal and plant are being promoted actively. Among them, the health and recreation functions is featured for various policies to be promoted in spite of small budget for responding actively to various forest recreation demands after settlement of 5-day workweek system. It seems because the health and recreation function could obtain visible results of governmental investment and high responses from the peoples as a function having close relationship with the people's daily life.

Spatial Upscaling of Aboveground Biomass Estimation using National Forest Inventory Data and Forest Type Map (국가산림자원조사 자료와 임상도를 이용한 지상부 바이오매스의 공간규모 확장)

  • Kim, Eun-Sook;Kim, Kyoung-Min;Lee, Jung-Bin;Lee, Seung-Ho;Kim, Chong-Chan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.100 no.3
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    • pp.455-465
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    • 2011
  • In order to assess and mitigate climate change, the role of forest biomass as carbon sink has to be understood spatially and quantitatively. Since existing forest statistics can not provide spatial information about forest resources, it is needed to predict spatial distribution of forest biomass under an alternative scheme. This study focuses on developing an upscaling method that expands forest variables from plot to landscape scale to estimate spatially explicit aboveground biomass(AGB). For this, forest stand variables were extracted from National Forest Inventory(NFI) data and used to develop AGB regression models by tree species. Dominant/codominant height and crown density were used as explanatory variables of AGB regression models. Spatial distribution of AGB could be estimated using AGB models, forest type map and the stand height map that was developed by forest type map and height regression models. Finally, it was estimated that total amount of forest AGB in Danyang was 6,606,324 ton. This estimate was within standard error of AGB statistics calculated by sample-based estimator, which was 6,518,178 ton. This AGB upscaling method can provide the means that can easily estimate biomass in large area. But because forest type map used as base map was produced using categorical data, this method has limits to improve a precision of AGB map.

Preference analysis of administrator group for public forest road use (I) - Problems of forest road use and standards and suggestions for future improvement - (임도 시설에 대한 관리자 집단의 의식성향 분석(I) - 임도 활용의 문제점 및 개선방법을 중심으로 -)

  • Ji, Byoung-Yun;Hwang, Jin-Seong;Jung, Do-Hyun;Kweon, Hyeong-keun
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.341-346
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    • 2015
  • This study was conducted to investigate the awareness tendency of the government employees who manage forest roads about problems of forest road use and how to improve them in the future using surveys. The results show there are more silvicultural operations than harvesting operations using forest roads. The main purpose of using forest roads is to transport workers; however, the road will be used more for harvesting operations in the future. The respondents wanted to be accessibility for forest operations within 200 m from road in both present and future. For silvicultural operations 1-ton vehicle is used at present, and 5-ton vehicles are expected to be used in the future. For harvesting operations 5-ton vehicle is used at present, and 10-ton vehicles are will be used in the future. The roadway width is 3 - 4 m at present, but should be 4 - 4.5 m in the future. The longitudinal gradient of roads is 7 - 10% at present, and will be below 10% in the future. The minimum curve radius of roads is 12 - 15 m at present, and will be 15 - 20 m in the future. The results provide basic data for making future forest road policies.

Estimation of Biomass Loss and Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Surface Layer Burned by Forest Fire (산불로 인한 지표층 연소량 및 온실가스 배출량 추정)

  • Lee, Byungdoo;Youn, Ho Jung;Koo, Kyosang;Kim, Kyongha
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.101 no.2
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    • pp.286-290
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    • 2012
  • Globally, the forest fires are a significant contributor of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In this study, fuel load consumed by forest fire and emission of green house gases were analysed in the surface layer. For this, remaining fuel was collected and weighed with the species (Japanese red pine, deciduous) and the forest fire types (surface fire, crown fire) in the 51 forest fires. 8,361 kg/ha fuel load was consumed in deciduous forest damaged by surface fire, and 8,055 kg/ha, 12,333 kg/ha in Japanese red pine burned by surface fire and crown fire. The combustion ratios were 78, 59, and 90%, respectively. 15,856 kg/ha the green house gases such as $CO_2$, $CH_4$, $CH_4$ in deciduous forest burned by surface fire was emitted and 14,834 kg/ha, 22,709 kg/ha in Japanese red pine burned by surface fire and crown fire.