Evaluating Natural Forest Management Efficiency

According to the structure-based forest management theory,the appraisal indices system of natural forest management efficiency was established from spatial utilization,species diversity, constructive species competition and tree composition,which could be used to depict stand status,and its metewand was given.Relative weight was endowed by The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP),and then the conception of natural forest management efficiency comprehensive appraisal index was put forward for the first time and applied to four different sampling plots of natural forest, three of them from Dongdapo forest region,Jiaohe, Jilin province,and one from Baihua forest area, Xiaolongshan,Gansu province,China.The results are as following:the stand status was obviously improved after being managed and plot A,B got a mark of "medium" while C and D were "perfect". From high to low,the arrangement of forest management efficiency comprehensive appraisal index was C>D>A>B.This appraisal result abided by the phenomenon detected in the practical field.The forest management efficiency comprehensive appraisal index brought up in this paper could be taken as a way of comprehensive quantitative change of stand state which directly reflects the effort of forest management and affords scientific basis of natural forest management effort.