POLICYISSUES(3_CEP_ERCIALFORESTM__ _,brkingPaper 84-03 I_ILIPPI_-_ INStiTUTE FOR Dh"V]__ STUDT_"_ The Philippines expects to permanently maintain some forty six per cent (46%) of the country's total land area of thirty million or degraded forest lands need to be restored with appropriate vegetative cover (PREPF_ 1930). POLICY ISSUES ON COMMERCIAL FOREST MANAGEMENT* Marian Segura-de los Angeles** Cerenilla A. Cruz INTRODUCTION and by