SUMMARY Forest management activities are designed not only to meet the growing economic and commodity production needs of the human population, but also to maintain, conserve, and protect ecological and social values. This paper presents a set of broad implications of advances in tree cloning technology on forest management and planning, and how these advances relate to socio-economic and environmental concerns of a growing human population. The discussion is divided into topics that present socio-economic and political issues and topics that present environmental issues. On the production side, there are difficulties in initiating embryogenic tissue of cloned trees, and genetic variation may still occur during the tissue culture process. However, if production issues can be overcome, tree cloning techniques may possibly accelerate forest tree selection processes and reduce cloned seedling costs. The silviculture applied to clonal tree plantations may differ from current seed orchard-based plantations as ...