Kazlų Rūda Forest District

administration

The forester Kazlų Rūda (lit. Kazlų Rūdos mokomoji miškų urėdija , formerly forestry operation Kazlų Rūda , Kazlų Rūdos miškų ūkis ) is a state enterprise (lit. miškų urėdija , dt. ' Forester ') in the municipality of Kazlų Rūda , in eastern Lithuania . The historical forest authority based in Kazlų Rūda looks after around 36,700 ha (1947: 57,652 ha) of forest areas under the direction of the chief forester Linas Bužinskas. The forests for research and teaching cover about 705 hectares and the seed-breeding facilities of the selection cover 136 hectares. The chief forestry department serves as the training forest office of the Aleksandras Stulginskis University , the Kaunas College for Forest and Environmental Engineering and as a research center for the Lithuanian Forest Research Institute ( Lietuvos miškų institutas ). The forestry office has its own student residence .

history

Forest management began in 1820 . In 1850, the plan for logging was made for the period 1850-1879 and then for the period 1887-1896. In 1862 the Kaunas - Kybartai railway road was built through the southeastern part of the Kazlų Rūda Forest and in 1908 the surrounding forest boundaries were measured. In 1920 the Kazlų Rūda chief forestry was founded with 6 foresters at that time , which were later divided into two forest offices (Kazlų Rūda and Jūrė ). In 1945, the Jūrė Chief Forestry and the Kazlų Rūda Chief Forestry Department were merged to form the Kazlų Rūda Forestry Industry ( Kazlų Rūdos miško pramonės ūkis ). In 1947 the forestry enterprise Kazlų Rūda ( Kazlų Rūdos miškų ūkis ) was founded with an area of 57,652 hectares. In 1957, the Kazlų Rūda forestry enterprise was integrated into the Kazlų Rūda forestry enterprise. In 1982, a branch of the Forest Science Department of the Lithuanian Agricultural Academy was established at the forestry enterprise . In 1990, the Kazlų Rūda Forestry Company became the Kazlų Rūda Chief Forestry. In 1991, the head forestry department of Kazlų Rūda became the independent chief forestry department of Marijampolė , and in 1994 the chief forestry department of Kazlų Rūda was restructured into an academic forestry teaching office.

structure

The administrative units of the forester, spread across the nine forest districts ( girininkija ) Agurkiškės, Ąžuolų Buda, Bagotoji, Braziūkai, Jure , Nova, Šališkiai and Višakio Rūda and the forestry Kazlų Rūda , which with an area of 58,700 hectares, the third largest managed forest Lithuania is. The foresters' offices are in turn divided into 16 sub-foresters , each with 2294 hectares of forest area. There are seven protected areas in the territory of the chief forestry officer. The protected area for genetic reserve of the pine with an area of 79.5 ha in Braziūkai was developed for forest science research and teaching, breeding and as a seed production facility for forest selection in order to protect valuable gene pool .

Forest nursery

The forest nursery of the head forester's office is located in Jūrė , on the Marijampolė -Kazlų Rūda- Šakiai road . The area of 5.5 ha in 1960 increased to 23.4 ha in 2005. The main activity is the cultivation of forest plants and trees (pine, spruce, alder, birch, linden, maple, larch). In addition, ornithochore shrubs and 120 types and forms of saplings are grown for urban green spaces. These are thuja, fir, juniper, obtusa, fir.