Forest harvest

Everybody knows that the forest is priceless wealth, but very few people think about the fact that natural resources are not everlasting. With the advent of autumn chills there comes a time for members of the Arsky school forestry unit to collect pine and spruce cones. The children collect the cones of such forest forming species as Scots pine and Norway spruce in order to get the seeds that are later used to establish artificial forests. They collect cones mainly on forest plantations – from young conifers. The foresters of Arsky Forest Establishment are ready to take the cones collected by young foresters. The head of the school forestry unit F.N.Gaynanova noted that the “cone arithmetic” strikes as widespread. For example, three tons of collected cones result in about 30 kg of seeds from which further about one million firs can grow.