Russian-German scientific expedition to study the boreal forests of the Altai Mountains
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Based on the survey identified the following key issues of forest management for the Forest Fund of the Republic of Altai Mountains:
1. The legislative ban clear-cutting and increasing the cutting age pine plantations has led to the accumulation in the structure of forest growth stands of Siberian cedar and the deterioration of their condition, causing most of the stands to collapse after a gradual and selective logging.
2. Employees of Forestry to work within the strict framework of the current legislation and regulations that do not respond to regional peculiarities of growth and development of plants.
3. Legislative ban on the use of chemicals in protected forests (65% of the total forest area of the Republic) promotes the development of centers of pests and diseases and, as a result of forest fires, over large areas.
The main cause of the problem is the poor knowledge of forest forming process from a regional perspective.
For the solution of the problems is proposed to organize a comprehensive scientific study of laws of formation of forests that have arisen under the influence of natural factors and man-made forests in the Republic of Altai.
This article has been translated by machine translation.
