Current Situation and Protection Strategies for Provincial Ecological Forest in Yangzhong City

During October 2020 to March 2021, investigations were conducted on species composition, structure, distribution, growth and tender of provincial ecological forest in Yangzhong city, Jiangsu province. The results showed that the total area of provincial ecological forest in Yangzhongwas 569.91 ha, dominated by arbor.82.57% of the total ecological area owned by collective.Forest type was protective, with broad-leaved trees such as Populus euramevicana‘I-214’, Salix matsudana, Cinnamomum camphora, etc. The growth condition of ecological forests wasgood, with professional management and significant ecological benefits. There are challenges likeslow regeneration, some disappearance of trees, low proportion of ecological forestof total forest land area. It had only 69.87% matching with the “three adjustments”of the nationalterritory. Countermeasures were proposed like establishing the latest ecological forest database, increasing the proportion of ecological forest, improving the quality of ecological forest, implementingthe forest tenure system and improve guarantee mechanism, training more forester, increasing the ecological benefits.