Use SFM criteria before choosing the cut
Use a criteria-and-indicators lens to frame a harvest choice as a multi-objective forestry decision.
The move: choose the scoreboard before you choose the cut. Sustainable forest management is not a slogan. It is a disciplined way to keep multiple forest values visible while making a practical decision. The Montreal Process gives a useful structure: look at biodiversity, productive capacity, forest health, soil and water, carbon, long-term socioeconomic benefits, and the policy setting around the work. Productivity is not the only objective A harvest can meet a timber target and still fail the management objective if it damages regeneration potential, leaves a road drainage problem, or removes the very structure that made the stand valuable.…
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