At the XXth IUFRO World Congress in Tampere, Finland, the importance of the Working Party on Multiple-use Silviculture (S1.05) was clearly reaffirmed. At that time, a new chair and co-chair were appointed, respectively Prof. N.Lust, a silviculturist from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and Dr. R.T.Brooks, a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Amherst, Massachusetts (USA). The mission of the revitalized Working Party is to stimulate research on silvicultural topics concerning multiple-use forestry. The Working Party will achieve this goal, in the different forest regions of our world, by focusing attention on studies on the silviculture of multifunctional forests. As the silviculture of wood and other commodity products is treated by other IUFRO Working Parties, our attention will be paid to the silvicultural aspects of the more newly claimed forest values, notably forest recreation, landscape esthetics, conservation biology, protection forests, forest health, wildlife and water resources, and fire management. Our principal challenge and objective is to facilitate communications among researchers using silviculture to enhance or conserve these forest values. The leaders of the Working Party would like to develop a mailing list of scientists interested in its mission and objectives. We will use the list to announce planned meetings or other activities of the Working Party. We welcome your ideas and suggestions for the Working Party, be they of international, national, regional, or local interest. If you would like to be informed of planned activities of the IUFRO Working Party for Multiple use Silviculture, please contact: Prof. N. Lust Dr. R.T. Brooks Laboratory of Forestry USDA Forest Service University of Ghent Northeastern Forest Experiment Station Geraardsbergse steenweg 267 201 Holdsworth Hall B 99090 Melle Gontrode University of Massachusetts BELGIUM Amherst, MA 01003 USA Ph: ++/32/9/2522113 Ph: ++/1/413-545-1845 Fax: ++/32/9/2525466 Fax: ++/1/413-545-1860 Email: noel.lust@rug.ac.be Email : rbrooks@forwild.umass.edu
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