Šume kao faktor privrednog razvoja Raške regije

Forests represent the significant natural resource of the Raška region. The preservation of forests ecosystems, and space potential offer, a favourable basis for their many-functional usage. For the time being, the productive, i.e., economic function, is dominant. The forests on the territory of the Prijepolje Forest Organization present the main raw material basis. In the whole cut wood volume of Serbia (state forests), the above mentioned organization participates with 37,1%. Opposite to that fact, the economic effects that the region economy has from the forest utilization, are far less than the potentials. Forest resources are neither enough nor adequately used. That greatly complicates the development of wood industry, as well as the other activities whose prosperity is connected with forests. Making and realization of plans for protection, fending forests and utilization, constructing infrastructure, tending and preservation of wild life, rational exploitation of forest resources, are the trends of the future usage of the Raška region forest natural wealth.Šume Raške regije su najznačajniji prirodni i jedan od najvažnijih privrednih resursa ovog dela Srbije. Znatna šumovitost regije (40,3%) i očuvanost šumskih ekosistema nameće potrebu za polifunkcionalnim korišćenjem šuma. Šume na teritorijama šumskih uprava Nova Varoš, Priboj i Prijepolje su ekonomski najvrednije a prirast dendromase u njima premašuje ili je u visini proseka za Srbiju. Zaštita i unapređenje šuma u Raškoj regiji zadatak je ne samo šumarstva već i niza drugih delatnosti koje svoj razvoj neposredno ili posredno vezuju za ovaj prirodni resurs