Order No. 134 of the Federal Forest Service validating some forest management regulations. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1993 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Timber Timber extraction/logging Geographical area Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract The Director of the Federal Forest Service orders to validate Instruction on the modalities of examination and validation of final cutting age (Annex 1) and Instruction on the modalities of examination and validation of calculation of cutting areas (Annexes 2,3). For the purpose of ensuring stable forest management final cutting age must be established for a long period in the process of forest organization. Optimum cutting age currently in force shall be taken as a basis. Calculation of final cutting age in the forests of various purposeful uses shall be carried out by the branch scientific organizations before regularly scheduled forest organization. Calculation of cutting areas must be envisaged for ten years separately for each category of forests. Calculated cutting areas that are recommended for validation shall be examined and validated by the regional forest management institutions. Full text Russian Website www.vcom.ru