Wooden floor (forest)
Wooden floors and non- wooden floors are categories into which forestry areas are divided in Germany and Austria. They are shown in forest management maps as part of forest management .
The Forest in Germany , according to the National Forest Act defined so that it includes other, failed with trees areas along with the actual, planted with forest trees forest area. (§ 2 Forest: ... Forest cleared or cleared areas, forest paths, forest dividing and safety strips, forest pelts and clearings, forest meadows, deforestation areas, wood storage areas as well as other areas connected with and serving the forest. ). The entire forest area recorded during forest management and the forest inventory (forest land, forest operating area) is divided into wooden floors and non-wooden floors. The wooden floor comprises the forest area permanently designated for wood production. Only temporarily unwooded areas ( called pelts ) are not outsourced , for example due to clear cuts , forest fires or calamities caused by forest insects such as bark beetles and other small areas that only insignificantly interrupt the existence , such as ditches, aisles (back alleys) or pipeline routes. The remaining area is the non-wood floor. This includes parks, resting areas and playgrounds, wood storage areas, wild fields and wild meadows, but also larger bodies of water in the forest such as ponds, rocks in the forest, block heaps and other open spaces. Forest paths and aisles are counted as non-wood floors above a certain width, usually five meters. It also includes forest buildings and facilities. A forest operation can also include non-forest areas, such as areas used for agriculture or buildings that are not related to forest use. These areas are not recorded in the forest management and therefore do not belong to the non-wood floor.
The terms came into use with the beginning of modern, systematic forestry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
In 2017, the total forest area in Germany was around 11.4 million hectares . About 3 percent of this (360,000 ha) was non-wood, the rest wood. The share of pelts on the wooden floor was about 0.3 percent. These values remained almost unchanged compared to the previous federal forest inventories.
Literature and Sources
- Gerhard Stinglwagner, Ilse Haseder, Reinhold Erlbeck: The cosmos forest and forest lexicon. 5th edition 2016, Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart ISBN 978-3-440-15524-0 , on pages 292-293.
- Service: technical terms . Third federal forest inventory 2012, BMEL Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
- Horst Kurth: Forest management: Sustainable regulation of the forest. DLV Verlag 1994 (Reprint: Verlag Dr.Kessel, Remagen). ISBN 978-3-945941-38-6 .
- Klaus von Gadow: Forest management. Analysis and design of forest development. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2005. ISBN 3-938616-28-8 .
- Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW (publisher): Process description for medium-term operational planning. Work instruction inventory inventory. Status: December 1, 2017 PDF
- Definitions of important forest terms, Landeszentrum Wald, Saxony-Anhalt. As of March 4, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Riedel, Petra Hennig (2019): Forest and wooden floor area unchanged. AFZ - the forest 14/2019: 22–23.