As of: March 8, 2024, 8:12 a.m
By: Josef Gutsmiedl
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Every detail counts: Sabine Sandholz and Sebastian Seifert record and evaluate the “offspring” in the forest for the new report.
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This year, the forestry department at the Kempten Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry is once again preparing a “forestry report on the situation of forest regeneration”.
The opening event at Niedersonthofen also showed different perspectives.
Oberallgäu
– Every three years the foresters in Bavaria go out to “inventory” the forest.
The focus is on the state of natural regeneration.
Using a meticulous process, the young plants are examined at defined points and examined for any damage caused by hoofed game.
Forest rejuvenation in Oberallgäu – dispute over reports
“Around 50,000 young forest tree plants are being examined in the Kempten office area,” explains department head Simon Östreicher at the start of this year’s inspection.
The main focus is on game browsing and damage caused by sweeping - and the bottom line is planning the shooting of hoofed game, i.e. roe deer, deer and chamois.
Depending on the findings of the report, the hunting authority makes a corresponding recommendation for the individual conservancies.
At the opening event, the representative of the hunting community was not sparing with criticism: the report was pure waste, unscientific and only fueled the dispute between forest owners and the hunting community.
The representative of the forest owners, Johann Jordan from the Oberallgäu Forestry Association, is different.
The state of natural regeneration is the basis for a future-proof mixed forest.
Ultimately, forests are also property worth protecting.