UNFAVOURABLE EVOLUTIONS IN THE FOREST EXPLOITATION IN ROMANIA,AFTER 1990

The forest fund represents one of the most important elements of the national riches and its exploitation influence directly both the economic growth and sustainable development of a country. The paper presents the dimensions of the forest fund in Romania, its structure by categories of areas, the dimension and structure of the forests surface by species of trees, theirs evolution after 1990. Also, we want to emphasize the tendencies registered in the forest exploitation, in the last 23 years, the destination of harvested wood and to relieve some consequences of this activity on the environment. Unfortunately, after 1990, in Romania, irrational and inefficient exploitation both of the forests and the harvested wood volume, lead to a diminishing of the density and the degradation of the forest fund and had implicit affected the sustainable development. In these conditions, it’s hard to talk about sustainable development from this point of view, because the forests are severely affected, not only by their bad exploitation but also by the climate changes. So, a vicious circle was created, because cutting forests means climate changes and climate changes affect the forests.