The „General silviculture” is a main science for the foresters. It provides basic knowledge for the nature of the wood: morphology, ecology, types, and management systems. This subject has the aim do educate the forestry students how to make decisions in to the forest and forest stands based on: 1 Contemporary knowledge for the forests as an ecological system; 2. Skills for optimizing economic, social and ecologic aspects about the methods for influencing (disturbing) the forests on different levels – stand, groups of stands, landscape, management unit.