The meeting in the Federal Forestry Agency just before the silvicultural season

Deputy Head of the Federal Forestry Agency, Nikolay Krotov, held the All-Russian meeting on preparation for the silvicultural season 2014.  “Spring becomes shorter and shorter, he admitted during the meeting, and that’s why the regions for whom planting is not a mere word should take all the necessary measures in order to carry out the required work intensively and within a short period of time. The first of April is a critical time point for the start of silvicultural works, which is imposed not by the legislation, but by the forest biology. This year forecasters talk about an early, short and hot spring on the biggest part of the country’s territory”.

It was acknowledged during the meeting that Heads bear personal responsibility for the failure to fulfill the plans of forest restoration. According to N. Krotov, this year the silvicultural season starts in the context of dramatically changing legislation. The State Duma of the Russian Federation made amendments to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation that directly concerns the field of forest restoration: federal monitoring of forest reproduction is being introduced, and a legal groundwork for transfer of forest plantations to forested areas was developed.