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The Slovenian Forest Service has issued 6,070 sanitary logging decisions to forest owners in the last four months, and the deadline for most of the decisions to carry out the work expires in March. It therefore urges forest owners to carry out sanitary logging as soon as possible, as the nice and warm weather will further accelerate bark beetle activity.
Trees that have been damaged by natural disasters and present good conditions for the development of bark beetles or have already been attacked by bark beetles are marked for sanitary felling. During the winter, the Slovenian Forest Service issued 6,070 decisions to forest owners for sanitary felling of 282,000 cubic meters (m 3 ) of wood. For a large number of owners, the deadline for carrying out sanitary felling expires in March, so the Slovenian Forest Service once again calls on them to carry out the work as specified in the decisions received.
Some forest owners who have not yet carried out the work in accordance with the decisions received have also been warned by forestry inspectors about the imminent deadline for carrying out sanitary logging. Delaying the implementation of sanitary logging is a misdemeanor that can be punished with a fine. There are around 1,400 owners whose deadline for carrying out sanitary logging will soon expire, and they have to cut down a good 65,000 m 3 of wood, 70 percent of which is in private forests. They can undertake the logging themselves if they are skilled in the work, have the necessary knowledge and equipment, otherwise it is safer to find appropriately qualified contractors. The list of qualified contractors published on the website of the Inspectorate for Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fisheries or on the Moj Gozdar portal can help in finding a contractor .
Forest owners should also monitor the health of their forests themselves. If they discover wind-damaged trees, stumps or fallen spruce trees, they should first inform the local district forester of the Slovenian Forest Service and start felling them as soon as possible. Trees attacked by bark beetles can be identified by the bark falling off thick spruce trees, which is a sign of late-summer attacks at this time. Trees newly attacked by bark beetles have a brownish powder – wormwood – on the bark or rhizome. More detailed advice for forest owners is published on the Slovenian Forest Service website Protection of forests from bark beetles .
By timely rehabilitating damaged forests and identifying new hotspots of bark beetle attacks, we can prevent excessive bark beetle infestations, which cause significant economic damage to forest owners and environmental damage to nature.
