The young forest in the Tölzer Land is in a mixed state
Created: 01/29/2022, 15:00
This is what an ideal mixed mountain forest looks like in winter: It protects the valleys best.
© Kramer/Nh
A forest report complains of browsing by deer, deer and chamois in the southern district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen –
How is the young forest in the district doing? This is one of the central questions to which the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) Holzkirchen tries to answer every three years with the forest report. The answer in one word: mixed. The state of forest regeneration has been assessed since 1986. The results as well as the so-called area-wise statements are the technical basis for the upcoming shooting planning of hunting tenants and landowners, says Christian Webert, head of the authorities at AELF Holzkirchen.
Forest Minister Michaela Kaniber recently viewed the Bavarian-wide results rather critically in the state parliament.
Around half of the forests in the Free State still suffered from excessive browsing by game.
This agrees with the local result.
In the spring, forest workers examined 34,000 young trees across the district.
Conclusion: "It looks better in the north than in the south," summarizes Webert.
In the south, it is primarily the mountain forest between Lenggries and Kochel that suffers from high game populations.
Too many roe deer, stags and chamois eat the buds of trees such as fir or maple.
What is explosive about this is that precisely the tree species that are very important for the stability of the forest in times of climate change are particularly fond of biting.
The state of forest regeneration has been assessed since 1986
"A diverse young mixed forest quickly turns into a pure spruce forest when the game population is too high," explains Johann Killer, Chairman of the Forest Owners' Association (WBV) in Wolfratshausen in an AELF press release and affirms: "Only with game populations that are adapted to the forest can they become stable and species-rich forests are created that can continue to provide the necessary services for society and forest owners in the future.” This refers to the services provided by the forest in the area of avalanche and flood protection in times of increasing extreme weather.
Killer's colleague from the WBV Holzkirchen, Alex Mayr, sees it similarly: "The goal of hunters and forest owners must be to enable natural renewal of the mountain forest by creating forest-friendly game stocks,
bite slightly removed
Positive: Overall, browsing in the mountain forest has fortunately decreased slightly compared to the 2018 report.
However, the segregation continues to take place over a large area.
"We are counting on the positive trend increasing and the mountain forest being able to develop better," says Webert.
However, the slight decline also shows that the high visitor traffic caused by Corona did not necessarily lead to more biting.
The reports of the conservancy communities (an association of hunting grounds) and the data basis of the report can be viewed on the homepage of the AELF Holzkirchen: www.aelf-hk.bayern.de.
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