Title: The Close-to-nature Forest Management in Yunnan Province,China
Time: Wed. July 17, 2024, 7-8 PM PST (Vancouver)
Dr. Jialong Zhang
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Dr. Jialong Zhang
Dr Jialong Zhang is a professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Visiting Scholar at McGill University, “Young Top Talents” of Yunnan Provincial High-level Talent Training Support Program, and Head of Forest Management Discipline at Southwest Forestry University. His main research focuses on time series remote sensing-based modelling of forest biomass/carbon storage/carbon sink, land use and cover change (LULCC), and sustainable development of forests. He leads or participates in projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration’s public welfare program, land resource surveys, land use planning, forest tenure reform, forest resource surveys, and forestry carbon sequestration. He has published over 60 papers in international and Chinese journals, authorized 2 invention patents, obtained 8 software copyrights, published 2 monographs, and published 2 textbooks. Received awards such as Liang Xi Youth Paper, Liang Xi Science and Technology Progress, Teaching Achievement, Teaching Innovation Competition, and First-Class Course.
Abstract
As early as before 221BC, the sage of the pre Qin period in China, Laozi, began to advocate the “The way follows nature”. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, forest resource management went through wood production and ecological civilization construction. In 1898, Gayer first proposed the idea of Close-to-nature Forest Management (CFM). How CFM was generated? What are the basic principles and technologies of CFM? Yunnan Province in southwestern China is one of the three major forest regions, with abundant forest resources and extremely diverse forest ecology. With the financial support of APFNet, Yunnan Academy of Forestry and Grassland and Southwest Forestry University have carried out long-term practice of CFM at Wanzhangshan Forest Farm in Pu’er, Yunnan Province to find out: 1) Is the Target Tree Management of Simao Pine plantation for Large-diameter Timber superior to other thinning measures? 2) Can comprehensive management improve the ecological functions in the Simao pine natural secondary forests?