ABSTRACT
The management of natural forests goes beyond the complex ordered ecosystem into the realm of the complex disarrayed ecosystem. With a natural ecosystem, specific silvicultural treatments can deviate from the forest norm. Enrichment is possible, e:g., natural species can be inserted that run against the successional flow, the populations of ecologically significant species can be increased or exotic species can be added. Natural forest management is not always intra-successional, but can involve advancing from one phase to another. Nature may do this slowly, an appropriate silvicultural treatment can accelerate the processes. There are a number of starting phases in natural forest management. Silvicultural treatments are a means to direct natural ecosystems along a chosen path. In agroecological terms, treatments or prescriptions harness the dynamics of the natural ecosystem for productive and management purpose. The destruction that naturally occurs can be the basis for wood removal. The management of natural forest can have manually planted components.
