Investigating the effective factors on forest degradation and impact of removing  livestock from district 14 of the northern forests of Iran: an environmental and economic perspective (Fuman)

Rezvani, Mohammad; Hashemzadeh, Fahimeh

Investigating the effective factors on forest degradation and impact of removing livestock from district 14 of the northern forests of Iran: an environmental and economic perspective (Fuman)

Document Type : Complete scientific research article

Authors

¹ paiam noor university

² tarbeiat modares university

Abstract

In this paper effective factors on forest degradation and impact of moving out livestock in district 14 of the country’s northern foresters was studied primarily from environmental and economic perspective. Following implementation of relocation project of livestock holders, two categories of participants on different sets of factors affecting forest degradation among which two were considered as more important. Effective on that two factors are more important; thispopulation. On the other hands, the livestock holders in the forest believed that the degradation intensity were a function of grazing intensity the stand seedlings and tree branches, frequency of livestock movement on forest floor and the resulting forest soil compaction. From their pont of view, protecting forest from this destructive impacts can be achieved through such means as 1) exclusion and translocation of livestock from forest areas followed by their establishment in lower land ranches in the area together with supporting the livestock holders with foraged and 2) more importantly, providing employment opportunity for the transferred livestock holder communities. The study showed that seedling survival rate following livestock withdrawal was significantly enhanced in the affected forest areas (P

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