ABSTRACT
One aspect of the silviculture-community interface is in reaching an accommodation with those individuals or groups whose lives revolve around forestry activities. These can be gatherers, loggers, and wood processors that gain livelihood from the natural forest or farmers that raise trees through farm forestry or agroforestry. With monetary exchanges, community gains are easy to evaluate. More troubling to tally is the ecological destruction and environmental loss wrought by uncontrolled harvesting. Most germane to the discussion is in selecting wood-production systems and harvest treatments that serve community needs the most. This should be done without overly impinging upon native flora and fauna, the character of the land, and the integrity of local ecosystems. Under the heading of cultural agroecology, there can be distinct landscape motif where the cultural proclivity visually imprints the land. Purchasing plantation logs with little regard for quality provides no incentive for landusers to prune or make other grade improvement.
