Forest resources of Krasnoyarsk Krai: prospects and limitations of the use

Abstract

The Government of Krasnoyarsk Krai has adopted a Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030. Harvesting up to 36 million m3 of wood per year is planned according to the strategy. Viability of the strategy should be provided with the necessary resources and that is its weak point. At present, there is no verifiable information of economically available wood resources. The method for calculating the annual allowable cut acting for more than 100 years has disproved due to unrealistic forest management standards. The normal forest model laid down in the method has not been implemented anywhere. It is impossible to solve the problem of organizing effective forestry and sustainable forest management without re-emergence of forest inventory eliminated actually by the Forest Code, 2006. Significant degradation of the forest inventory system consisted in the transfer of its functions from the federal level to the regional one as well as in declining forest inventory works. The forest fund is federally owned so it is the state instead of the region authority should provide up-to-date reliable information of forests to make successful management decisions and developing strategic planning documents. A principle of effective forestry as production industry will be an objective market ecological and economic assessment of forest resources that could be provided by the re-emerged forest inventory. Implementation of purposed capital investment projects in the Lower Angara region will be difficult due to uncertainty of providing with wood resources required. Owing to forest fund inaccessibility, low forest stand productivity, and environmental constraints, it is unlikely to count on the wood resources reserve of the southern Evenkia. Organization of forest use should be more flexible and promote both development of the forest sector and maintenance of the biosphere role of forests.

Keywords

• strategy
• forest fund
• annual allowable cut
• economical accessibility
• forecasting
• forest use organization