Change of Conservation and Planning Approach in Türkiye Forests%253A Bilezikçi Farm Forest (1926-2020)

The first precaution for the protection of forest areas in Anatolia-Türkiye began during the Ottoman Empire. With the first forest management plan made in Hendek, a new phase has started in terms of planning in our forestry. Other important processes in the protection and utilization of forests are respectively%253B The nationalization of the country%252339%253Bs forests during the Republic of Türkiye, shift to sector based planning in 1963, and the transition from the wood-producing axis to the quot%253BEcosystem-Based Functional Planningquot%253B (ETFOP) approach, in which other benefits and functions are taken into account. Bilezikçi Farm Forest is one of the oldest planned forest units, where these processes are fully experienced and which reveals the change in the understanding of the protection and utilization of the Türkiye%252339%253Bs forests. It has a feature that sheds light on our forestry from past to present with its changing forest laws, transition from private property to public and changing utilization understanding since 1926 when it was first planned. In the study, seven management plans made for Bilezikçi Farm Forest between 1926 and 2020 were examined, and the change in the understanding of country forestry in terms of planning was revealed