By joining the LFOA the members by signature agree to the following principles for action:
Did you know?
After a forest owner has harvested some of his/her forest, after a few years there is a new forest stand growing. Also in that case of forest owner has not done anything in the felling site... because the climate and soil in Latvia facilitate forest tree seeds sowing in soil and growing. The task of the forest owner is to do young stand management in order to create better quality of the forest.
- Forestry is entrepreneurship aimed at gaining profit from managing forest land. All the other goals of forest management are also respected.
- Latvian Forest Owners Association is working towards:
- Promoting sustainable and economically efficient forest management development in Latvia;
- Encouraging revision of and improvement of the regulatory acts that hinder forest owner to take economically-grounded forestry management decisions;
- Encouraging governmental bodies to simplify procedures for issuing different permissions for forest management, including forest establishment;
- Achieving established and working compensation mechanism where a forest owner receives based on marked principles and economically grounded compensations for management restrictions;
- Supporting the efforts to review the forestry related tax policy;
- Encouraging the increase of forest owners competence and knowledge about forestry, legal and economical aspects;
- Supporting implementation of modern and effective technologies in forestry;
- Promoting positive image of a forest owner in society;
- Effective representation of Latvian forest owners' opinion in Latvia and internationally.
