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and industry or economic affairs. Forest legislation will The use of peat soils for sustained wood production is pl_
be adapted in the participating countries. Eventually considered as nonsense. Th
specific administrative procedures will implement the
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basic laws. Taxation and financial aids are other tools Peat areas must be kept and even restored for cat
for the application of the European forest policy, ecological, ae_daetic,ethic and socio-economic reasons, ca
Biochemical quality of the water in the peat soils is 5
Research, development and application must increase considered as too important to allow any transformation an
and should be coordinated at the different levels,
or plantation.
Education and vocational training will provide the
requested personnel while continuing education will
keep the high level requested.
Operations will request special and adapted machines.
Reforestation after harvesting existing stands is not
more allowed and some areas of scientific interest will
The permanent consulting of the owners, managers, be totallyprotected. No thinnings in existing stands are Th
workers, delegates from the processing industry, trade allowed. Natural spontaneous vegetation will be bi
spheres and greens or positive ecologists will allow to promoted. T
moderate the conflicts and objectively promote the
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proposed forest policy. Public relations will inform In general wide spacings are advised at the plantation tr
about the programs and the operations, and thinnings will keep the trees at correct distance at N
each age. Compartments will be installed to facilitate F
A detailed project has been compiled already in 1979 the ac,cess to the trees for felling and skidding. Strict
and implies wood production and conservation of the control is prescribed on mechanization. The harvesting
nature with protection of the human environment, instructions are given at the sale of the trees. Some
Sustainability and diversity are the main basis for the
type of equipment, skidder or tool may be forbidden
future of the forest, all the forests, state, private, public, while tracks are not more systematically under
communities, etc.
interdiction as it was imposed by the forestry code in
times past, Mixed species is promoted mainly in areas
An application model is given here for the state and
planted with conifers.
under state service control forests in Belgium as
example. For the private owners, incentives are given by the
Forest Service of the Walloon Region in Belgium to
The French speaking Universities were asked to
promote the fn'st thinnings, if some conditions are
elaborate special technical instructions for the
respected. The forest stand must reach less than an
management of the forest. The forests on slopes, wet
average 13m height for the hundred thickest standing
soil 0aydromorphic) and peat are especially involved,
trees.
On slopes, erosion must be avoided by keeping the
canopy closed, by a correct management of the
The thinning may happen selectively or systematically
openings due to the harvest of the trees and by doing (compartments to facilitate mechanical operations).
thinnings at a very young age. The mixing of species is The thinning must left 700 to 2000 trees after the
advised and even age stands must be managed to come felling following the density of the plantation
in the very near future to an uneven structure with (proportion figures are specified). Only one subvention
adapted broadleaves for a large extend. Stumps will is allowed for the life of the stand. The amount allowed
remain in place on the slopes after felling. Brushes and is 260 dollars per ha with a maximum of 1,290 dollars
herbaceous vegetation must be sustained underneath
per request. For grouped demands issued by at least
the trees. Logging by air using skylines is advised and three owners, an additional 65 dollars is allowed
road net should offer densities of 15 - 25 m/ha when
individually.
the slopes are >30%. The number and the location of
the log yards will be especially adapted. On wet soils The demands must follow various administrative
broadleaves mixed stands must be promoted. The
conditions specified in the decree issued by the
mixed forest treated as a gardened high forest should be Government of the Walloon Region on November 17,
seen as an optimum. No clearcut is allowed and the
1994. Some additional amounts are allowed when the
keeping of the cover will favor evapotranspiration
forest area is located in rural areas recognized by the
permanently. The choice tree species will look at the EU for special assistance.
root systems and natural drainage is recommended.
Special hauling strips should be managed in the stands. Financial support is given by the Forest Service of the.
Humus process will be kept under continuous control. Flanders Region also to private forest owners for the
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