The strong demand and high prices that pines have achieved in recent years have rekindled the enthusiasm of forest owners and community montes for conifer plantations. Pine of Galicia interviews forestry engineer Jorge Bouzas, of the Galician Forestry Association, to discuss the management that pine plantations should have, of […]
In a context of climate change and increasing extreme weather events, the question of drought resistance in cultivated species arises. In Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France), scientists from the Institut National de la Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE) are studying the case of Pinus pinaster in collaboration with […]
More than 200 professionals from the forestry sector, the timber industry and prescribers (architects, builders, etc.) gathered on 25 October at the Piñeiros 22 meeting, organised by the Arume Foundation at the City of Culture in Santiago, where the opportunity opening up for the sector and the forest supply chain with the advent of […] was analysed.
Antonio Rigueiro Rodríguez, president of the Galician Forestry Association and professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, will give a lecture entitled «Sustainable Forest Management in Galicia» on Monday 7 February, organised by the Science, Technology and Environment Section of the Ateneo de Santiago. It will take place at 7.30 pm at 19 Rúa do Vilar. This lecture will present the […]
The Lourizán Research Centre has just published a video about the work carried out by its team in search of native pine varieties resistant to the pine nematode. In this video, the cause of the disease is explained, as is the work of the Centre's researchers in gradually selecting those specimens that […]
The Forestry Association of Galicia, together with eight of Galicia's leading organisations in the forest and timber sector and with the support of Abanca, has just created the Arume Foundation, aimed at improving coniferous forests, promoting the genetic improvement of pine and fostering new uses of timber. The Arume Foundation seeks to make the […] attractive.
The Community of Common Ownership of the Atios Common Forest, located in the parish of the same name in the municipality of Porriño (Pontevedra), has an area of 333.14 hectares, of which 12 per cent (22.64 hectares) are covered with native broadleaves. This community woodland attests to its sustainable forest management through FSC and PEFC certification […]
The quality pine, sourced from stands subjected to careful silvicultural treatments (pruning, thinning, etc.), will carry a differential price from 1 July at Finsa, the main consumer of conifers in Galicia. The revaluation will apply exclusively to quality timber that is straight, clean, knot-free, free of visible resin, with a minimum diameter of 40 […]