[Rural and Fisheries News=Reporter Park Nara] It has been one year and three months since the South Chungcheong Provincial Government integrated environmental and forestry policies into a single axis through organizational restructuring in the latter half of the 8th term of the local government. The newly established Environmental and Forestry Bureau, established last year, is evaluated to have significantly increased the government's execution power by integrating and operating closely connected policies such as climate crisis response, forest resource management, water management, carbon neutrality, and forest disaster prevention within a single structure. We met with Kim Young-myeong, Director of the Environmental and Forestry Bureau, to discuss the direction of South Chungcheong's environmental and forestry policies, including changes after the organizational transition, carbon neutrality strategy, future forestry policies, the public discussion on the Jicheondam, and sustainability principles. # One year and three months have passed since the Environmental and Forestry Bureau was established. Organizational transition