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 [...]
Technical assistance of the NaturSmart project. Folgoso do Courel and Piñor. These are four technical works that the Galicia Forestry Association wants to contract with freelancers or SMEs to carry out during the year 2025 on activities to be integrated into the NaturSmart project. Offers can be made to all or some of them. In the award, priority will be given to the distribution [...].
The COMPÁS project has published a new newsletter in which some of the activities carried out so far in the project are collected. The project "Models of regional development on pyric herbivory, a tool for environmental conservation and the fixation and protection of the population (COMPÁS)", led by the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), is working [...]
Throughout the month of November 2024, the Galicia Forestry Association carried out the felling planned within the activities of the ForestED project of oak and chestnut samples in the study areas of the project. On November 5, a chestnut plot was cut in the municipality of Boqueixón, on the 6th and 7th, oaks [...]
The Galicia Forestry Association organizes, in collaboration with the Concello de Boimorto, a workshop on forest management in Boimorto Saturday 23 November 2024. It will take place in the Casa da Cultura and will start at 10.30 am. This workshop is part of the activities of the ForestED project, Impulse to the transformative potential of forest management for the sustainable production of wood[...]
The Galicia Forestry Association participated on October 22 and 23 in the meeting and visit of the NATUR-SMART project that took place in the León municipality of Villamartín de Don Sancho. In addition to participating in a proximity management meeting, the representatives of the NATUR-SMART partners visited the municipally-owned [...]