This Act provides for the administration and management of national forests in order to promote national benefits, provide stable forest product supply through sustainable forest management, extend forest public benefits through environmentally sound national forest development, enhance the quality of life by promoting public use of national forests, etc. National Forests will be administered and managed by the Chief of the Korea Forest Service, who shall be responsible for: conducting regular survey on soil, vegetation, growth rate, etc.; establishing and implementing an Integrated National Forest Plan and a National Forest Administration Plan; keeping under control the production of timber in national forests; promoting public participation in forest tending projects and other national forest protection and cultivation programs; classifying and managing national forests as conservation forests and semi-conservation forests and authorizing their use and lease, respectively; etc.
Республика Корея · 2005-08-04