Silviculture and Cinegetics Review - Societatea Progresul Silvic
Silviculture and Cinegetics Review - Societatea Progresul Silvic
Silviculture and Cinegetics Review - Societatea Progresul Silvic
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FORESTRY BELTS SILVICULTURE AND CINEGETICS REVIEW XVII/30/2012<br />
Abstract<br />
Although its long tradition in Romania, the activity of setting up forest shelterbelts has been neglected in the last four<br />
decades, due to circumstantial situations. By the Law no. 289 (May, 2002) concerning the establishments of forest<br />
shelterbelts, some premises have been created for a national system of forest shelterbelts to protect the agricultural l<strong>and</strong>s in<br />
the areas frequently affected by drought.<br />
The present paper addresses the aspect of designing the forest shelterbelts, starting with the location compulsory<br />
information <strong>and</strong> thus from the main factors that depend the location or the distribution of the forest shelterbelts on a certain<br />
area, determine the basic elements necessary to establish these protective cultivations: orientation, distance, width <strong>and</strong> the<br />
shelterbelts openings.<br />
The paper presents a brief characterization of specific ecological site conditions of two geographical units, because the<br />
distribution <strong>and</strong> the combination way of ecological site conditions factors within the Romanian Plain <strong>and</strong> Dobrogea<br />
determine the afforestation diversity solutions recommended for the establishment of forest shelterbelts.<br />
Regarding the installation of forest filed shelterbelts, the present paper sets the ecological site conditions on which the<br />
shelterbelts are required (using systematic review of ecological forest sites in the Romanian Plain <strong>and</strong> Dobrogea) <strong>and</strong><br />
recommends the tree <strong>and</strong> shrub species that can be included in the forest shelterbelts composition, the main features of<br />
forest shelterbelts (field location, orientation, width, distances, recommended species, planting drawing) <strong>and</strong> the<br />
afforestation solutions in the existent ecological site <strong>and</strong> soil conditions.<br />
The paper main objectives aimed on the theoretical location of the field forest shelterbelts network in the Romanian Plain<br />
<strong>and</strong> Dobrogea, the settlement of the compulsory forest shelterbelts <strong>and</strong> the location of that network by l<strong>and</strong> use categories<br />
(arable or pasture) <strong>and</strong> the estimation of the seedling stock needed to achieve these shelterbelts. The resulting information<br />
are useful for sizing <strong>and</strong> for timing of the afforestation stock production <strong>and</strong> they presently have only a background<br />
character at the regional level.<br />
Key words: forest shelterbelts network, crops protection, ecological site conditions, afforestation compositions.<br />
Translated by: Roxana Gabriela Munteanu<br />
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