Almost every second person who is investigated in Austria regards fires as threatened by the domestic forests. The respondents consider drought, storm and bark beetle as greater challenges. “Here we still need consciousness,” said Andreas Gruber of the Austrian Federal Bos (Öbf).
The persistent drought this winter literally makes the situation in the forests “dangerous for the fire,” said CEOS spokesperson Georg Schöppl. Smoking and fire must be completely released. “But what we can’t do is cast the forest over a large area (…). We depend on nature ”. Wald covers almost half of the Austrian state area.
In recent years, damage has also been caused by windwitches, trees in dry stress offer the bark beetle better. “What we do now to remove damaged wood as quickly as possible, so that so little dead material for the bark beers is there as quickly as possible,” said Gruber.
Dambled damage caused by extreme climate
“The next 100 years will certainly not be less turbulent than the past 100 years. In less than 30 years, forest damage has doubled (…), “said Rupert Seidl, chairman of the New ÖBF Advisory Board” Forest of the Future “. The challenge is to find trees that can grow in both current and future climate. Climate heating is already taking place in a generation of tree.
At the moment more sparring, larch, beech and oak would deal with the consequences of climate change, but the sinful sin.
For the ÖBF Forest Survey, 1015 people aged 16 and older were interviewed who are representative of the Austrian population.
Source: Krone
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