Under this heading I include those technicians responsible forest management, not because they are suspected of burning anything, but because they are guilty of the terrible state in which the mountain is Galician, and is a direct cause of the fires.
The choice of species, short-cycle species very profitable for the industry but little for the land owner (the wood of young pine, eucalyptus or is dirt cheap even without burning) is and a true ecological crime. Alien species into the half in introducing, impoverish the soil, prevent the development of tree species develop more slowly, creating a monoculture as ecologically rich as a field of grain Castilian.
The criterion of extraction is also an insult to the intelligence, seeing trucks loaded with logs of diameters less than 10cm, and even to 5cm. The procedure for logging wild that takes place in Galicia, by selecting a field and destroying everything, leaving it stripped of all vegetation, the ground split by the machine rolled and exposed to erosion, is a procedure that only has an advantage: the short-term benefit of logging companies, which minimizes costs.
In a third world country the administration should ensure the general interest, and not giving leeway to the barbaric way to proceed. The engineer who approves that knows how to act under any foreman mountains forests centuries ago when a young tree cut was a serious crime (and a folly.)
a timber industry that requires it to grinding for the production of paper pulp and chipboard, only requires fibers, the weight of tiny wood cost can come from both juveniles, and burned.
We in the administration about how utterly foreign to the problem of forest service timber companies and processors and their interests. Galician forests now worthless : Most oak trees are less than twenty years (the product of natural regeneration of forest fires and massive cutting, if not above Carballal been replanted with pines and eucalyptus, thus completing the disaster.) The remaining forests, afforestation, are of a very low cost per copy, as appropriate to the industry but obviously not the owners (who are often communal).
administration can not treat the forest as a matter of marketing, rather than as a unique asset to preserve. The administration has to manage the assets of all in interest, and not exempted from their responsibilities and leave the forest planning in the hands of the forest industry. A well-managed forest is a richness, economic importance, for society and very specifically for the rural community where he resides. If there are strong economic interests in a forest does not burn, the forest does not burn.
Solutions:
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adoption of a rational, modern, forestry, in which logging is selective, only mature specimens and commercially viable, reducing the landscape and ecological impact (soil erosion). With this system, the profits flow back to the land owner. In today's language: to value timber .
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Assumption by management guidelines, a plan showing what you want to do with the mountain. That government decisions have to be aimed at the preservation of biodiversity and the management of forests wisely to have a high value that accrues in the communities to whom they belong. This will begin by know the current status of Mount Galician as a serious, rigorous and oblivious to outside pressure, not like now.
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absolute protection of the few unaltered examples of Atlantic forest in Galicia (Ancares, Caurel, Raspberries Eume, Teixedal of Casaio ...) as gems and hope for the future of Galicia. They must be the seed to undo all the devastation of the last decades of barbarity against the mountain.
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That the objective of the planting is restore the ecosystem we inherited, and not serve as a cheap raw material for shredding industries. Absolute prohibition of restocking with any species of eucal IPTO or pine native. Regenerate the Atlantic forest (oak Carballo, oak, holly, beech, negro, birch ...) continued ndo biological criteria and not short-term speculators wood.
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