The application of silviculture measures on contemporary, rationalized basis
in order to sustain and improve forests in the area of the National park
?Fruska Gora?, is the most im?portant segment of forest management, having
in mind their anthropogenically deteriorated conditions and their purpose.
For the improvement of stand conditions, intensive silvicultural tending
measures are necessary in certain phases of development of the stands which
is con?trary to the passive protection. The main reasons for the application
of these measures are in the coppice origin of the stands on over 82% of the
area of National park and the silver lime dominance compared to other
edificators (oaks and beech). On the basis of the ecosystem approach in
forest management, and especially in conditions of more pronounced climate
change, the silvicultural measures need to be rationally synchronized with
biological-ecological demands of the main species and dominant processes in
forest ecosystems. In other words, there is a need to implement the elements
of close-to-nature forest management. This paper points toward the most
important determinations of silviculture in order to achieve the goals of
special-purpose forests in the National park.