Activity of the Forest Keepers in the Province of Trento
Jan 15, 2016
Activity of the Forest Keepers in the Province
of Trento
FORESTS IN TRENTINO
346.000 hectars
Total surface of Trentino: 620.000 hectars
56% Surface covered by forests
growing stock 53.000.000 cubic meters
annual prescribed yield 447.000 cubic meters
hectares of productive forests (80% of the forest)
hectares of planned productive forests (78% of the productive forest)
276.000
215.000
135 logging firms330-340 people employed
Annual processing of 380,000 net cubic meters
Annual Productivity between 1400 and 2000 cubic meters
Forest administration in the Province of Trento 10 Forest districts
37 Forest stations
171 Forest keeping zones
The forest keeper ensures the service in the circumscription to which it belongs and is directly responsible for the service in the keeping zone entrusted to him.Maintains the necessary connection relationships and cooperation with the representatives of the public forest owners and the forest authority.
1 Director and 1 technical officer
1 Forest inspector and 2-4 agents
1 Forest Keeper
management
improvement
enhancement
the Public Forest property
also with the goal of the conservation and balance of the ecological systems.
Aim of the Forest Keeping serviceAccording to the forest act n.
11/2007
The forest keepers can be employed in the development of technical assistance for:
Public forest owners
Enterprises involved in the management of the forest property
Enterprises involved in the Forest harvesting
Support of rural development plan
Private forest owners
Forest keepers
Techinical functions
Vigilance functions
On the forest patrimony of public corporate administrationsOn the respect of the laws in subject of environment and forests
Management of the “civic uses” in forest (firewood)To follow the operations connected with the forest utilizations in the public forests and to guard that the same are used in conformity of the technical and contractual prescriptions.
Usi civici
Civic uses
the Civic Use is the right of every inhabitant of a municipality or community, to enjoy the fruits of a collective ownership good (typically woods and pastures) to satisfy the basic needs of life.
When the good of the collective ownership is the forest, the civic use right are:
Fire wood
Building wood for the own home
households of Trentino that use firewood to integrate the heating
Annual quantities of firewood taken from public forests
Average quantity of firewood that each asker will receive annually
63%
29%
3,5 tons
86,000 tons
Portions of civic use firewood distributed each year in the province of Trento by the forest keepers
About24.50
0
Average annual number of portions of firewood distributed by any forest keeper
Silvicultural importance of civic uses
The civic use allow to perform actions such as thinning that are without economic convenience for the public owners.
With passing of the time, however, the more comfortable and accessible areas are less and less. On the other areas the utilizations are carried out by specialized firms, then the material obtained is distributed as firewood to askers, that pay only the cost of intervention.
Commercial forest utilization
cutted and
stacked
standing trees
presumed assortments
The owner takes care of the cut processing and logging and selling the timber in stacksDifferent
price depending on assortment
The owner sells the plants still standing to a firm that takes care of the cutting processing and logging
Single price. No assortment
The owner sells the timber before cutting estimating the quantities of each assortment and agreeing with the buyer on the required assortments and the delivery period.
Different price depending on assortment
Kind of timber sales
Percentage of forest keeping zones where prevails the sale of timber cutted and stacked
Role of the forest keepers in the commercial forest utilizations
Individuation of the annual cutting area
Estimation of the forest utilization cost
Estimation of the potential timber assortments
To trace the lines for the cable cranes
Monitor and control the work of cutting, processing and logging
Classify the logs in different assortments
Measure the timber
Follow the sale phases
The forest keepers took part in the setting phase of the project to identify suitable areas for terrestrial and aerial surveysThey have provided guidance for the job of marking and one of the labels used was developed by following their suggestionsTake part to the questionnaire requirements users WP1
Forest Keepers and the collaboration with the SLOPE Project
Individuation of the annual cutting area
Estimation of the forest utilization cost
To trace the line for the cable cranes
Forest keeper needs and requirements and the slope project
Implementation of models based on DTM, DSM, CHM data and and GIS information about forest road network to obtain a segmentation of the forest in different areas with different costs of utilization
Estimation of the potential timber assortments
Forest keeper needs and requirements and the slope project
Implementation, through sample areas, of a predictive model for the estimation of the possible assortments obtainable from a particular forest area based on parameters easily detectable such as:Medium height
Diameters
Branchiness index
Density
Slope
Exposure
Evaluate the possibility of using the spectral signatures of the canopy to predict the presence of rotten wood.
Critical issuesForest Road network and storage yards are not always optimal
Problem of processing waste (branches and treetops) created by processors.
Accuracy of length measurements with processor
Processor is not always usable in all contexts
Specific technical knowledge and specifications (GPS, GIS) are not known to all the forest keepers
Optimal situation, wide space, roads suitable for trucks
situation more difficult, less space, not very wide road
Piles of branchwood created by processors could be a problem when the area can not be reached by a wood chipper and truks
TRAINING
Specific technical knowledges and specifications (GPS, GIS) are not known to all the forest keepers
The SLOPE project can be an opportunity to improve these knowledges
Thank you for your attention