%0 Dataset
%T The basis of afforestation science in the Soviet Union's forestry organization
%J Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
%I Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center(data.dcxjegi.cn)
%U https://data.dcxjegi.cn/portal/metadata/06c00f81-6fde-4a2b-b2a9-22a495b5b46e
%W NCDC
%R 10.12389/ariddc.02110
%A Documentation Information Center
%K Forestry;Mixed forest zone;Forest
%X Soviet forestry represented a new and the highest form of social organization in the history of world forestry. The foundation and source of its development lay in the fundamentally new socialist mode of production.Soviet forestry was a branch of the socialist economy that encompassed the cultivation, protection, and organized utilization of forests in order to satisfy the needs of the national economy and the population for timber, while also making use of forests' other beneficial functions, such as protection, water conservation, and public health services.The fulfillment of the tasks of Soviet forestry required organizational work. One form of such work was the organization of forestry through forest inventory and survey activities.In the Soviet Union, forest inventory and survey work had not yet covered all forest regions; at the same time, forestry operations were carried out throughout all forest areas. Therefore, many forestry organization issues usually addressed during forest inventory could also be resolved within current forestry operations. The difference was that forestry organization carried out through forest inventory rested on a much more solid foundation, namely, new forest stand inventory data, detailed research and analysis of forestry economics and natural conditions, and fuller use of the latest methods and technologies in forest inventory work. Such tasks were difficult to accomplish solely through the efforts of forestry enterprises and forest districts themselves.Therefore, forestry organization achieved through the process of forest inventory and survey (the subject discussed in this book) should be regarded as one of the most important forms of economic organizational work undertaken by the Soviet state in the field of forestry.In developing and applying its theory and practice, Soviet forest inventory and survey work had to be based on the laws of socialist economic development and be consistent with the tasks of communist construction.A