GENERAL OVER-VIEW OF RANGE REHABILITATION IN TURKEY

46.7% (10.1 million ha) of Turkish forest area is unproductive. The unproductive forest area can be seemed a potential for different utilizations except of wood production such as range purpose. Range, one of the most important natural resources, is a combination of both forestry and agricultural practices. Turkey has 14.6 million ha range area (18.6% of Turkey). Range potential of unproductive forest is cover an important amount in the range area. Rehabilitation is one of the important ways in optimal utilization of present range area, to decrease erosion, and also to transmit present biodiversity to next generation. The range rehabilitation was 64564 ha from 1946 to 1991, and 32413 ha between 1992 and 2003, while it was 64777 ha from 2004 to 2009, and 182863 ha between 2010 and 2015. There were large differences among years for range rehabilitation area in Turkish forestry. In the present study, range rehabilitation in forest area is examined to discussion for future rehabilitation based on forest inventory over years between 1946 and 2015.