It can also be argued that although these debates over silvicultural methods are not new and terms like ``close-to-nature silviculture”
therefore important to note that these demands for
transformation of even-aged forests to alternative structures have become the result of social/political factors in addition to ecological. Solutions to this political challenge should therefore respond to these political pressures and should not be ecological reactions.
have existed since the 1900s (Schutz, 1999), that È