Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
1. Maintenance and restoration of plant and animal species and their habitats;
2. Regulating the size of animal populations;
3. Regulating the spread of plant species in cases of invasive growth of their
population size, permeation in the natural ecosystems and resultant changes in
composition thereof;
4. Erosion control activities and reclamation of damaged or degraded terrains in
keeping with the stated need for re-integration of the cultural landscape;
5. Construction of drinking water catchment facilities, water purification plants,
underground communications, buildings and facilities needed for the Park’s
management, in keeping with the stated need for re-integration of the cultural
landscape;
6. Grazing in designated areas (Appendix 29);
7. Grazing of animals controlled by an electric fence;
8. Building and maintenance of temporary shelters for stock-breeding at designated
places;
9. Hay-making, by personal means at designated places (Appendix 29);
10. Amateur fishing;
11. Extraction of forest fruits, mushrooms and herbs for personal use throughout the
entire zone, except at designated places and marked accordingly;
12. Extraction of forest fruits, mushrooms and herbs for commercial use;
13. Renewal and maintenance of the all-round protective and recreational functions of
forests affected by natural disasters, calamities and diseases. (Appendix 12).
Norms
1. Amateur fishing on the Iliyna River from Brichebor to the point of confluence of
the Kamenitsa River (Kodjakariytsa);
2. Grazing: The number of heads of livestock allowed to graze in the territory is
determined with the following regulations:
• In the meadows and pastures in the forests
- for cattle: 10 decares per head minimum;
- for sheep: 2 decares per head minimum.
• For pastures in the treeless zone:
- for cattle: 12 decares per head minimum;
- for sheep: 4 decares per head minimum.
3. Temporary shelters for stockbreeding: without foundations, built of all-natural
materials, provided that they blend well with the environment;
4. Timber use:
In forests plantations according to an approved forest inventory (FI 2000);
Gathering of dry or fallen timber.
5. The attendant timber extraction when actions for restoration and maintaining of
the complex protective and recreational forest functions are conducted, according
to Item 13 of the Zone Regimes cannot exceed 15% of the stock;
6. When using timber-according to Item 13 of the Zone Regimes, at least 5% from
the affected timber must stay at the logging site.
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