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FOREST SANITARY PROTECTION IN LITHUANIA: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW

FOREST SANITARY PROTECTION IN LITHUANIA: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW. Zolubas P., Vasiliauskas V. State Forest Service. Organization. Mission. GOOD SANITARY CONDITION OF ALL LITHUANIAN FORESTS as a result of overall effective integrated forest health management system

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FOREST SANITARY PROTECTION IN LITHUANIA: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW

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  1. FOREST SANITARY PROTECTION IN LITHUANIA: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW Zolubas P., Vasiliauskas V. State Forest Service

  2. Organization

  3. Mission GOOD SANITARY CONDITION OF ALL LITHUANIAN FORESTS asa result of overall effective integrated forest health management system and Forest Sanitary Protection, contributing to it

  4. yesterday: organization till 1968 4 regional pathologists

  5. yesterday: organization 1969-1997 department of forest enterprise

  6. yesterday: organization 1997-2009stand-alone office under Ministry MINISTER OFENVIRONMENT General Enterprise planning FOREST SANITARY PROTECTION SERVICE Forest Department Reforestation and protection department coordination strategy Forest enterprise consulting Forest mana-gement division Forest protection Engineer surveys alerts Forestry

  7. today: since 2010department of State Forest Service MINISTER OFENVIRONMENT General Enterprise State Forest Service planning strategy Forest Department Reforestation and protection department Forest Sanitary Protection Department coordination Forest management division Forest enterprise consulting Forest protection Engineer surveys alerts Forestry

  8. today:functions • Monitoring and forecastof damage by abiotic factors, diseases, insects and animals • Forest sanitary protectionprevention and suppression – planning and directing • Expertise and consultingidentification of forest pathology causes, advice for forest health management

  9. Forest health management

  10. today:main pests and diseases Spruce forests: • spruce bark beetle Pine forests: • defoliating insects Broadleave forests: • ash decline • oak decline All forests: • wind damage • draught

  11. yesterday: problems • insufficient information • weak prevention and meagre suppression of local outbreaks • not effective in private forests • conflict with environmental protection

  12. Funding:requestedallocated 20000,5 mln 0,22 mln 20012,3 mln 0,95 mln 20021,5 mln 0,30 mln total1,47 mln yesterday: late outbreak treatment Panolis flammea case

  13. today: early suppression no further outbreak development • 2002 Lymantria monacha1600 ha • 2004Dendrolimus pini250 ha • 2005Tortrix viridana30 ha • 2010 Dendrolimus pini 6400 ha

  14. today:good information sources Monitoring • Ips typographus • Tomicus piniperda, T.minor • pine weevils Hylobius sp. • Panolis flammea, Dendrolimus pini, Lymantria monacha, Diprion pini • ash decline, oak decline Damage registration • compulsory pest and disease damage registration (order Nr. 1B-300 of Director General, 2003.12.29)

  15. today:forest pest management methods

  16. today:plant protection products in forestry

  17. tomorrow:problems • capitalism • forest system reform • threat of privatization • bare effectiveness in private forests • environmentalism • environmental issues limit forest protection • globalism • introduction of non-native species

  18. tomorrow:problemsrevenue outreach • forest reform for maximum profit: • threat of privatization (single income) • budget greediness (additional 20% income tax) • sanitary protection is not immediately profitable activity • not a priority in private forests

  19. tomorrow: problems conflict with environmental issues • widespread myth that sanitary protection is based on redundant cuttings • FSC: • requirement 15 m³/ha of dead wood • pesticide black-list • ban of pest management in protected areas

  20. tomorrow: problemschanging environment • emerging new pests (native species) • Physokermes piceae • Sphaeropsis sapinea • introduction of non-native pests • Erwinia amylovora • Cameraria ochridella • ? Bursaphelenchus xylophilus • ? Anoplophora glabripennis

  21. tomorrow: problemsincreasing frequency of calamities

  22. Dziękują za uwagę Darz bór

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