land use process forestry "Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, in what is known as multiple-use management, including the provision of timber, fuel wood, wildlife habitat, natural water quality management, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, aesthetically appealing landscapes, biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forests as 'sinks' for atmospheric carbon dioxide. A practitioner of forestry is known as a forester. Other common terms are: a verderer, or a silviculturalist. Silviculture is narrower than forestry, being concerned only with forest plants, but is often used synonymously with forestry." A land use process during which humans access and manage forest ecosystems for 1) the provisioning of wood, forages, water, wildlife, and recreation as well as a broad range of other ecosystem services or 2) the maintenance of the forest ecosystem's health.