Korea Forest Service holds national forest resource cooperative council

Private experts from the forestry field, along with public specialists and field practitioners who support implementation, gathered Tuesday to open a channel of communication aimed at identifying ways for national forest resources to contribute to local communities.

The Korea Forest Service said it held the third-quarter meeting of the National Forest Resource Cooperative Council at the Government Daejeon Complex to discuss measures for realizing communication-centered administration through the use of national forest resources.

The agenda covered ways for national forests to contribute to local communities, including an update on efforts to improve the national forest products transfer system — carried over from the second-quarter meeting — along with two new items: plans to revitalize joint forestry projects such as specialized forest product cultivation complexes, and a "national forest resource-circulation local cooperation model" that makes use of discarded forest byproducts.

The Korea Forest Service plans to review the agenda items identified so far in sequence and apply them in mountain village settings, aiming to produce tangible outcomes that benefit forestry workers and the public.

Jang Young-shin, head of the National Forest Management Division at the Korea Forest Service, said the meeting brought together policy, field and research expertise in one place to develop actionable plans. "We will actively work to identify new projects together with local communities so that national forests can contribute to regional cooperation," Jang said.