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The director general of Rural Development and Forestry, Federico García Izquierdo, today supervised the preventive forestry works carried out by the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment in the public utility hill La Muela, in Alhama de Murcia, which have meant an investment € 204,500, financed by 63 per cent by EAFRD funds, by 11,1 per cent by the Central Administration and by 25,9 per cent by the Community.
The regional official stressed that "it has been possible to improve the health status of forests and promote their self-protection against fire, achieving forest mass structures with less degree of combustibility by controlling forest biomass."
The silvicultural work was carried out on masses of carrasco pine (Pinus halepensis), of variable density, coming mainly from reforestation, that suffered the effects of the intense droughts of the last three years and the attacks of pests, especially of perforating insects And defoliators.
This critical situation caused that the forest mass was weakened gradually and the mortality of large number of trees was produced.
The woody debris originated as a highly dangerous forest fuel in the face of a possible fire.
As a result, thousands of dry feet were removed (pitted and parched) on an area of ​​153 hectares.
Fire extinguishers
Also, more than 6,61 kilometers of auxiliary strips of track, firebreaks have been installed, which accompany the forest tracks on both sides, and left standing some adult pine specimens, as well as protected species of scrub, thus achieving vegetal discontinuity Both vertical and horizontal.
The auxiliary track strips are one of the most effective forestry designs aimed at both the prevention of fires and the direct fight against the advance of fire.
Source: CARM
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