This winter, significantly more damage has occurred in the forests of the Würmtal than in previous winters. A chipper has been running continuously on the Kraillinger tank farm site since the beginning of February to shred broken treetops into biomass for thermal power plants.
Individual broken trees are difficult to locate. Foresters hope to get the dead wood out of the forest by the end of March or beginning of April. If the dead trees and crowns are still lying in the forest when the bark beetles swarm out in spring, “we will quickly have a real problem,” says Stefan Ziermann.