Principles of Sustainable Forestry Development in Yellow River Delta Region

摘要

Yellow River Delta (YRD) is one of the biggest deltas that have not been deve loped in the world. During the turn of the centuries, YRD development is listed in the two major projects in the new century by Shandong provincial government. According to the plan, YRD will become an important energy, chemical and agricultural production base in 15 — 20 years. In view of its location and natural conditions, so far there exits a lot of environmental problems in YRD. Thus the principle of economic development coordinating with environmental protection must be implemented during YRD development. Fo-restation is one of the vital measures to cope with environment degradation. Therefore, strategies of forestry development and techniques of tree planting in different land use types are discussed in the paper based on site classification with involved specific problems.