VIRGIN FORESTS AND FOREST RESERVES IN ... - Natura 2000

130 Forestry in Slovenia as a Proof of Nature’s Unpredictability, Bifurcation, etc.
FROM TRIANGLE TO TETRAHEDRON
Forest as an enemy
Considering the development of relations between humans and forests throughout the
history we can conclude that in most cases man was an enemy to the forest. He destroyed
it, establishing artificial ecosystems like foreign bodies, which oppose nature and its laws.
When man is educated in different school systems his activity appears as something
positive. We are compelled to recognise this mistake and reveal the truth about man and
nature.
Forest as a friend - as a friend for life!
Recognising this fact man has to admit that the forest has to be accepted as his friend. We
have to stop exploiting forests and develop a new philosophy in our woody country where
man and forest become friends. Man has to trust the history only to a certain extent
because of huge unpredictability of already severely spoiled nature. On account of this
fact friendship between man and nature has to progress in a specific way based on our
cognitive investigation of nature.
Inventive ideas brought by individuals need general public to
proliferate
There are many examples where individuals like Schollmayer, Ressel, etc. produced
original ideas through cognitive practice, spreading them for the benefit of the public.
Foresters have to start teaching people about sustainability, biodiversity, iron law of
locality, the importance of globalization versus localisation. These ideas, which play a
very important role, have to be explained to the public objectively and ecologically and
without political implications.
Extension service as the main tool in the future
The extension service has to become one of the main tools of foresters in the future as
part of tetrahedron reviewed in the previous chapters. That means the extension service
has to became an organic part of research, teaching, and practice as one unit based on
cognitive conceptions. The new forester has to develop the new forestry on a high cultural
level with responsibility. In other words, the forester has nothing to do with extension
service agriculturists practised till now. Forestry as a topic has to become the organic part
of educational programmes at all school levels (from primary schools to colleges
producing educating teachers). In the future, considering all these facts, the foresters of
the country (The Forest Service) have to add themes on real nature of forests to the
regular curricula.