Background
The preindustrial age has been dubbed by Werner Sombartand others as the 'wooden age', as timber and firewood were the basic resources for energy, construction and housing. The

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Today a strong body of research exists regarding the management of forest ecosystems and the genetic improvement of tree species and varieties. Forestry studies also include the

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Foresters work for the timber industry, government agencies, conservation groups, local authorities, urban parks boards, citizens' associations, and private landowners.

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Over the past centuries, forestry was regarded as a separate science. With the rise of ecology and environmental science, there has been a reordering in the applied sciences. In line with this view, forestry is a primary land-use science comparable with

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The provenance of forest reproductive materialused to plant forests has great influence on how the trees develop, hence why it is important to use

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History of forestry education
The first dedicated forestry school was established by Georg Ludwig Hartig at Hungen in the Wetterau, Hesse, in 1787, though forestry had been

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Foresters develop and implement forest management plans relying on mapped resource inventories showing an area's topographicalfeatures

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