O 6 de xuño, a Asociación Forestal de Galicia inaugurou en Pontevedra unha oficina de atención a socios que está ubicada no Centro cultural de Santa María de Xeve. O acto de apertura oficial incluíu unha conferencia do presidente da Asociación Forestal de Galicia e catedrático emérito da USC, Antonio Rigueiro, quen falou sobre o […]
The Galician Forestry Association is inviting tenders for the forestry works to be carried out in the pilot area V of Piñor (Ourense) within the NATUR-SMART project. The maximum budget is 39 000 € (VAT 21 % not included), with a completion period of 4 months. The work aims, among other things, to [...]
On Friday 23 May took place in the Cultural Centre of Arenteiro de Piñor the first general meeting of members of the joint management forestry group Asociación para a Valorización do Monte Entreoslameiros Lousado de Piñor created as part of the NATUR-SMART project. This grouping currently brings together a total of 27 people, but we are still working on the identification of [...]
The COMPÁS project publishes its third newsletter, which contains a selection of the work carried out in recent months in the project. Among them is the mini-video that the Galician Forestry Association, in collaboration with the Private Communal Neighbouring Forest Owners of Sabaxáns (Mondariz) carried out on prescribed burning, also known as ‘burns [...]’.
The Galician Forestry Association, in collaboration with the Concello do Incio and within the ForestED project, organises on Friday 16th May 2025 a workshop on the use of deciduous hardwoods that will take place in the Multipurpose Hall of the Concello and will develop the following programme: ForestED: hardwoods for innovative uses in the forest sector [...].
Within the COMPÁS project, the Galicia Forestry Association, in collaboration with the Private Communal Neighborhood Forest Owners of Sabaxáns (Mondariz), prepared and disseminated on social networks a mini-video about prescribed burnings, also called controlled burnings. This type of burning, widely used in rural Galicia in past times, is a very useful tool for [...]
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A video is published explaining the birch fellings carried out in the municipality of Zas, A Coruña, in the autumn of 2004 to obtain wood for the experiments being carried out in the ForestED project. The video can be viewed on this link. Birch is a native species in Galicia with an area that is increasing, both naturally and through plantations [...]
We continue working on the NaturSmart project, this time moving forward with measure A7, promoting the creation of a forestry group in the pilot area of Piñor (Ourense). This action in Galicia is led by the Galicia Forestry Association, which on this occasion was joined by a sociologist from the University of Vigo, a collaborator of the IUFOR research group at the University [...]