The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district took a very generous approach to logging in the Kleinaschauer Filz in 2020.
The forestry office intervened.
However, the government of Upper Bavaria subsequently approved the measure.
In 2020, the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen felled more wood than allowed in Kleinaschauer Filz.
The Office for Food, Agriculture and Forests Weilheim intervened.
The government of Upper Bavaria has no problem with the measure.
Ohlstadt
- If something is
stolen
from nature because of a building project, appropriate compensation and replacement measures must be implemented.
This is no different in connection with the planned semi-junction on the A95 at Gut Weghaus.
Area on Ohlstädter Flur
The district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has provided the Autobahn GmbH des Bundes, Niederlassung Südbayern (formerly Autobahndirektion Südbayern) with a plot of land for these purposes in Kleinaschauer Filz on Ohlstädter Flur.
It concerns the area "Filzlüss".
0.4 hectares too much removed
Woods were removed from the area last year, but 0.4 hectares too much, especially spruce.
The measure thus went beyond the content of the planning approval decision.
"They were very generous with the felling," says Martin Kainz, department head at the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forests Weilheim (AELF).
The authority intervened.
The reason: "That was not discussed with the Lower Nature Conservation Authority," says Kainz.
Trees had been felled even though there was no permit.
Whereby Kainz says: “Felling trees is not forbidden per se, but there is the risk that you will have to reforest if the permit does not come.” The district does not believe that it has made a mistake.
After a storm had thrown the larger trees in the south of the area "and heavy equipment would have had to move in, it made sense to do the work on the southern area together with the northern area," says Wolfgang Rotzsche, spokesman for the district office .
Apart from that, the measure as originally planned would have been somewhat unsatisfactory according to him, among other things because of the casting of shadows.
"In return for the area provided by the district, the Autobahn GmbH gratefully agreed to optimize the measure and also to take care of the work in the southern part of the area."
No positive answer
Rotzsche emphasizes that it was a "sensible measure".
A clearing application was made about a year ago, "according to the Forest Act, there is also a basic right to approval".
However, the AELF did not initially receive a positive response.
The work was carried out by a company commissioned by the Autobahn Directorate / Autobahn GmbH.
Part of the area in which the additional clearing took place is registered as a biotope.
However, the site is not part of the Murnauer Moos nature reserve.
Government: All right
The government of Upper Bavaria was also involved in the matter.
The superordinate authority had no problem with the approach of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district.
The higher nature conservation authority advocated the "adjustment of the compensatory measure", as reported by Wolfgang Rupp, government spokesman.
Negative consequences for the district?
Nothing.
The necessary supplement to the planning approval is currently still in progress.
For AELF department head Kainz, the case is over.
"Now everything is in the green."
Insider shakes his head
An insider does not understand that the district's approach has no consequences.
"When a normal farmer does something like that, the smoke goes up."
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