Ecoforestry was reborn in 20ths century by family homesteads selectively cutting down trees for home uses & leaving a variety of trees to grow. It’s called "thinning" a tradition amoung conscious foresters around the world in native bioregions aware of long growing cycles & needs for soil fertility maintaining wild animal habitats & pure water supplies.

Now with 'global warming' growing fast from many sources, Ecoforestry is even more needed to maintain natural 'carbon sink' of living forests absorbing carbon from air & cooling the ground with shade that trees & bushes & grasses provide. The complex bioregions of rain forests around earth are very stressed & killed by slash & burn, total logging for lumber & building roads, sturctures, pipelines, etc. Even cattle over grazing kills some forests, that take decades to centurys to restore habitats.

So Ecoforetsty compliments reforestation where many trees of diverse native varieties are planted as needed by local landscape to for restoring, regreening & balancing the damaged habitats organic integrity. by micheal sunanda, Oness Pr

See - ECOFORESTY - The Art & Science of Sustainable Forest Use,

Pb by Alan Drengson& Duncan Taylor editors, New Society press '97.

"WILD LOGGING: A Guide to Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Forestry" (Pb) by Bryan C. Foster, Jack Ward Thomas

GOOD FORESTRY – from Good Theory to Good Practice – Essays on Ecological Forestry & Design Alan Wittbecker, Urania Pr 06.

Mtn Grove Forest Care Plan system