The conservation and rational management of medicinal plants include proper organisation of plant collection so natural resources would not be depicted. The available instructions should be followed in the industrial-scale plant collection. For some plants specific techniques of their collection should he applied. This is especially important for those cases where the underground parts are mostly used such as in the thorn-leafed plants, madder, liquorice, and others. When collecting roots, usually the mature specimens are taken which disturbs the age structure of the populations. The intensive collection interferes with the population's ability to compensate for these losses and leads to a sharp decrease in productivity. In order to avoid this, the rules of collection of the medicinal material have to be strictly followed.

Decrees of the President of Turkmenistan "On Establishment of the Park Zone in Foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains" of 22.05.1998, "On Development of the Park Zone in Foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains" of 10.10.1998, "On Complex Work for Planting Green Plantations in a Form of Closed Belt Around Ashgabat, Velayat and Etrap Centers" of 26.08.1998, under the motto "Gyok Gushak" (Green belt) have become powerful incentive to the development of forestgrowing in the country. In autumn 1998 a large park zone on the area of 3,000 hectares with 2,5 million young plants planted, was laid in foothills of the Kopetdag mountains, in the south of Ashgabat. In autumn-winter period of 1999 only along the highway Berzenghee-Khinduvar in the 500-m belt, on its both sides, 1 million of conifers (pine-tree, cypress, thuya, juniper, etc.) were planted. Along other highways and in the park zone of Ashgabat, during 1999 there have been planted 2,100,000 plants on the area of 3.600 hectares. Besides, in 1999 works on establishing 6-row forest belts, fringing Ashgabat, velayat and etrap centres, began.
During the years of independence of Turkmenistan, the total amount of samplings all around the country was more than 25 million, or 5 trees per each citizen of Turkmenistan. Planting of trees in green belts around Ashgabat, velayat and etrap centres continue .