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FOREST USE

16.06.2021 | Przemysław Paweł Popiół

Forest use means to utilize its resources, i.e. timber, ground cover products, Christmas trees, whole plants or their parts suitable for the needs of pharmaceutical industry; it is also extracting minerals and many others. The foresters make forests accessible to the public, however in a way which ensures their sustainability.

 

The volume of timber harvest is decided by the allowable cut determined by forest management plan for each forest district. It is the amount of timber allowed to be logged in selected forest stands located in a designated area in a period of 10 years scheduled by the plan. Owing to this, the allowable cut is lower than the actual increment of timber in the same period, so the growing stock increases systematically.

It is estimated that the current abundance of Polish forests is over 2,645 million cubic meters of timber.

 

The methods of timber harvesting:

  • felling – removing mature stands from forest; the basic aim of felling is to rebuild and restore stands,
  • tending cuts (clearing and thinning) – removing from forest a part of trees presumed to be unwanted and harmful to other trees and valuable parts of stands,
  • unplanned cuts – they are the result of natural disasters in the forests.

 

Summary of the total cutting use according to forest menagement

Forest menagement

District Otyń

District Przytok

Przytok Forest District

thickness in m3

Special

13842

34144

47986

Protective forests

192067

229525

421592

Cutting system

87590

x

87590

Selection cutting system

15258

x

15258

Conversion

x

x

x

Przytok Forest District

308757

263669

572426

 

 

In the Przytok Forest District, the tasks included in the Forest Management Plan for 2021-2030 are as follows:

- timber harvesting in an amount not exceeding: 898,264 m3 net timber, including:

a) obligatory cutting time in felling: 508 105 m3 of net timber,

b) area time of cuts in pre-cutting use: 10004.08 ha with an approximate thickness of 390,159 m3 of net timber.

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