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Balkan fir instead of spruce: How Ebersberg should make its urban forest fit for climate change

2021-07-21T09:17:14.685Z


With the current tree population, it doesn't go any further: The Ebersbergers have come to terms with this knowledge with regard to their urban forest. There is also criticism of mountain bikers who are out there.


With the current tree population, it doesn't go any further: The Ebersbergers have come to terms with this knowledge with regard to their urban forest.

There is also criticism of mountain bikers who are out there.

Ebersberg

- The forest has an important place in our ecosystem. It stores CO2, serves as a shelter for water and air, is a living space and place of relaxation. In times of climate change, the forest comes more and more into focus, as it serves as an air conditioning system. The members of the Ebersberg Environment, Social and Culture Committee therefore undertook an informative excursion last Tuesday - before their regular meeting - to the Ebersberg city forest behind the Forest and Environment Museum on Ludwigshöhe.

Martin Bachmann, head of the Forests 2 department and the “Nature 2000” function at the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forests Ebersberg-Erding and Astrid Fischer, head of the Ebersberg forest district, led the councils through the communal forest in order to give them the necessary redesign to convey.

Forests cannot escape climate change either.

Some trees have no chance of survival, especially the spruce.

Lebanon cedar and Balkan fir as trees of the future

Therefore, one wants to gradually cut out the pine plant and rely on tree species that can withstand climate change.

“We want to keep beeches and oaks, we have to convert the rest,” says the forester.

Rare native tree species such as cherries and service trees are to be strengthened, tree species from other regions are to be planted, such as the Lebanon cedar, the Atlas cedar or the silver fir from the Balkans.

These strategies are necessary to make the forest fit for the future, explained Bachmann: “We have to make the forests fit for climate change.” Even if some would be critical of the use of non-native tree species - only with these measures could the forests be preserved.

"The choice of tree species is an essential strategy for a sustainable forest," said the man from the Bavarian Forest Administration.

The forester emphasized that the word sustainability comes from forestry is no coincidence: “Our goal has long been sustainable forestry.

We want to preserve the forest, we just have to convert it bit by bit in order to maintain its protective function.

We are right in the middle of it. "

Trouble with criss-cross mountain bikers

The forest is not only a shelter and habitat, it is also an economic factor, after all, wood can be sold.

It is also used for local recreation.

A great area of ​​tension, as Bachmann made clear.

Preserving biological diversity, guaranteeing protection, maintaining the forest as a recreational area, all of this costs.

Bachmann was sure that forest neighboring communities like Ebersberg would have to pay for this.

It was about the accumulation of dead wood, but also about conflicts that exist in the forest as a recreational area. Mountain bikers in particular are currently causing major problems in the Ebersberg city forest, also because they are simply out and about through the woods. In the final round of questions, this interested the councils most of all, but the question arose as to what could be done directly in the urban area, where action would have to be taken. But that was not the topic of the evening tour of the forest.  

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Source: merkur

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