Vom Wesen waldbaulicher Arbeit heute und morgen

Summary

The crisis of classical silviculture in the middle-european sustained yield forestry becomes evident—above all—in the large discrepancy between scientific findings and practical management. Numerous inhibiting factors are to be held responsible for this: lack of a silivcultural basis for combined objectives in the management of productive and social forests, forest-technical development aid from the boreal wood-exploitation areas, the modernization of forest management being too onesided oriented to industry, a lack of professional improvement, sociological problems as a denaturation of man by technology and economy etc. An integral silviculture, based on ecological fundaments and following a free style, must lead to an optimization of interdisciplinary conflicts of objective under the aspect of long-term objectives. The comprehensive life-work of the man whose jubilee we celebrate has readied the way to a solution.