FORESTS IN ROMANIA,    FORESTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Nowadays, the area covered by forests is about 6.5 million hectares.
The historical surface of the forests was of about 18 000 000 ha in Romania. At the end of the 19 Century the forest coverage was reduced to 40 % and in 1948 was stabilized at 27 %. According to the forest legislation the surface of the forest coverage cannot decrease further.
At the end of 2008, the state forest was about 53 % and the other 47 % belongs to private and legal person and to administrative units as is presented below:

The State Forest is administrated by the National Forest Administration Romsilva which is supervised by the Minister of Environment and Forests. Romsilva is divided in 41 forest district that are coordinated directly by the General Manager. The forest administrative units are the elementary forest divisions and they are subordinated to the forest districts.
Due to the forest law nr.46/2008 the forests are administrated based on forest management plans elaborated on the production units that are valid for 10 years excepting those made for poplar, willow and other species quickly rising, the period of validity is 5 or 10 years.