Considerațiuni asupra domeniuliu forestier al României [Considerations on the Forestry of Romania]

• Main Author: Drăcea M.D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ”Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of Forestry and “Marin Drăcea” National Research-Development Institute in Forestry - Station Câmpulung Moldovenesc 2018-07-01
• Series: Bucovina Forestieră
• Online Access: http://www.bucovina-forestiera.ro/arhiva/2018/18(1)/07_restituiri_81-102.pdf
• ISSN: 1582-0769; 1582-3725

Marin D. Drăcea was the most important personality of Romanian forestry from the interwar period, who had many exceptional results during his life. One of his achievement was the degree received in 1923 with „Summa cum laude” of the Ph.D. thesis with title „Contributions to the knowledge of the Acacia in Romania, with a special look at its culture on the sands of Oltenia”. Besides the remarkable didactic, scientific and administrative activity, Marin Drăcea also carried out a prodigious activity within the professional associations, being first vice president and then president of Forestry and Forest Progress Society. Marin Drăcea contributed in a considerable way to the progress of the Romanian forestry through its thinking and through its activity, especially between 1919- 1944. At the anniversary of the Centenary of the Great Union, he deserves to be fully honored by the publication of one of his reference conferences, which speaks about Romanian forests. In this context, the work proposed for „Restitutions” was supported at the Free University of the Romanian Athenaeum on February 14, 1937. By this time the „Considerations on the Forestry of Romania” Conference is primarily an analysis of the relationship between forest and society, the role played by the human / anthropic factor in the existence and condition of the forest and the forestry sector. After the industrial revolution, the anthropic factor, with its knowledge, habits, needs and desires, has begun to play a decisive role in the state, evolution and fate of the forest, having the capacity not only to ensure sustainable forest management and protection, to destroy and degrade it, more than all environmental and biological factors together. Removing this state of affairs lies in both the spiritual and rational aspects of man, which can be modeled by a nation’s forestry education, by inoculating love and respect for the forest in everyone’s heart.