FOREST MANAGEMENT OF THE LESTARI AS RESCUE EFFORTS OF RIVER FLOW

Currently the existence of community forests, which was built on land owned by the community, has experienced significant contribution to the improvement in environmental conditions. In South Limestone Area, the development of community forests have been changing regional conditions are dry, hot and arid. Existence dominated forests of teak and mahogany has made this area more green, lush and cool. Forest people are also quite an impact in reducing the number of natural disasters landslides in Menoreh Mountains Region.

For owners, community forests are an important part of their lives. Utilization patterns and interactions of forest village communities with quite different forests and different one another, depending on soil fertility conditions, culture, society in general, local and district policies related to the development of community forests. However, generally identified that forests play an important role in social and economic life of the village community forest. While the medium-term needs met from annual crops such as cassava, cubeb, etc.. Long-term needs met from the long-term crops, timber plants. In less fertile areas such as southern chalk mountain, forests very important role in sustaining life on the farm community does not produce.


In general, people's forest management is the management concept is very simple, ie only with his land planted with woody plants and let it grow. In a way, silvicultural techniques in the management of community forests expand fast enough. Efforts by the method of plant propagation cuttings, and transplants have continued quite familiar to the people of forest farmers. Similarly, the model multi-species planting and harvesting and multilayer tree that does not destroy other plants have become their own color in the management of community forests.However, this technical development is not accompanied by an increase of adequate managerial capacity. This is a great effect on the process of setting an almost said no, because it is always associated with the fulfillment of a sudden nature. The fulfillment of this makes people forest farmers as producers of wood has always been a weak party in the bargaining process of the product price.

Some general characteristics of forest management in terms of aspects of people's forest management are:

Being on the land used as forests with specific reasons, such as less fertile land, topographic conditions that are difficult, limited manpower, ease of maintenance, the risk factors of small failures and so forth.

Forests are not clustered, but spread widely based on location and ownership of land, and agro-diversity patterns.

Base management at the family level, each family to develop and settings separately.

Harvesting logging system based on need, so the concept of sustainability based on the results yet continuity results can be obtained from the calculation of harvesting which is comparable to the growth (riap) plants.

Not yet formed a professional organization to conduct the people's forest management.

No forest management plan of the people, so no forests farmers who dared to give a guarantee of continuity of wood supply for industry.

Timber trade mechanism beyond the control of people's forests farmers as producers, so that the greatest benefits from forest management do not feel people forest farmers.

These traits highly suggest people vulnerable forests due to increased demand of forestry-based industries, particularly timber. This is exacerbated by declining productivity of timber from national forest caused by illegal logging and the failure of manufacturing plants.

Intervention efforts necessary for the salvation of the people of the decline in forest quality and quantity that will bring further negative impact on the quality of regional ecology and economy.On the next hand, a number of wood-based industries of the people who hold thousands of workers will also experience the impact of follow-up (collateral damage). Development of managerial capacity in the management of community forests should be cultivated to provide certainty for the sustainability of wood supply industry and farmers' income continuity assurance forests.

This program seeks to build a design and construction of forest management units of the people through regional arrangements and the preparation of institutional or organizational forest governance professionals to gain a sustainable advantage. This management unit will be the basis for achieving a balance between growth and the quantity riap harvesting the people in a given period.