Forestry

The success of a forest business depends strictly on a good project planning, as with any activity, it is necessary to know all matters involving the business. The Forestry, art that deals with all activities related to implementation and development of forests, can be understood as the set of all measures towards to increase the economic profitability of the trees in a forest until they reach a level allowing their sustainable management.

The attainment of the desired benefits in each project depends on the forest administration, the system of management, which is closely connected with the forestry planning. Recalling that forestry is the soul of any forest management plan, the prime objective is to increase the quality of the final product, its size and if possible, its quantity, noting at all stages the socio-economic and environmental feasibility of the production process. The planning of forestry production is the structural organization of activities for the wood production that has direct implication in the indication of the management, the establishment of this is fundamental to the achievement of the desired results.

On natural forests where trees of different ages and sizes in small coexist in small areas of the same ground, and trees of all ages appear in the same area, the forest planning and the indication of the management, especially sustained, is a real challenge, precisely by the complexity and variety of ecosystems and the large number of species occurring. The key issues for the practice of sustainable management of natural forests concerns the felling of a few trees per unit area, the care to not cause damage to residual forest compromising therefore the subsequent cutting and the natural regeneration and the protection of all types of vegetation that have important role in the ecosystem functioning and in the ecological processes.

On planted forests they follow the basic rules of any agricultural crop, generally there being the planting and the harvest that is executed in a given stage of the stand called the rotation period age. As the process is planned, there is greater control over the variables of each site that allows a clearer identification of the productive potential of the sites. The stands established generally consider the utilization of a single species with a regular space between the trees. One of the very positive characteristics in planted forests and conducted with the management assessed is the control on the variable age, this feature allows developing analysis on the behavior of the tree and stands growth.

Any system of management considers initially a forest regime represented by the set of technical activities applied to a forest stand with the aim of achieving the objectives predicted in terms of forest production. Management involves other variables of marketing, industrial and economic character. Once the marketing variables closely involve the development of a forest management and the managerial decisions can be based on technical criteria, there must be a knowledge and mastery of the whole structure of costs, prices and interest rates, present and future production that each site and species can provide over the time so that a plan can lead to success of the intended activity.

The Fenix Consulting & Research, in this context, has specialized in the implementation and management of forest projects that meet the interests of the various contractors, whether private, corporate or institutional. Always seeking to optimize the profitability of the investments and using the expertise of professionals involved, the works of this folder begin with the identification and the understanding of the characteristics of forest properties, of the objectives of forest production, the characteristics of the species of interest, of the market, economic and financial conditionings. Factors such as species, initial spacing, age of rotation period, the system of thinning and pruning are carefully analyzed and determined for a better return on investment.

Our commitment and of all professionals involved in any task of implementation and forest management is the development of works focused to optimize the contractors’ results.