Entwicklung und Behandlung der Wälder in Appenzell Ausserrhoden | Development and Treatment of Forests in Appenzell Ausserrhoden
| Autor: | Peter Ettlinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. 152:262-267 |
| ISSN: | 2235-1469 0036-7818 |
| DOI: | 10.3188/szf.2001.0262 |
| Popis: | The forests of the canton of Appenzell A.Rh. are mostly made up of silver fir and beech. Early settlements drove the forest back and up on to the steeper slopes. The industrialisation in the 18th and 19th centuries coupled with a growing population produced an additional uncontrolled cutting of the forest. By 1860 the composition of the stand of the remaining forest was entirely young trees. Private organisations, joined later by the canton, started a decades long lasting reforestation, for the main part with spruce. In order to increase growing stock the forestry services limited harvesting. In time this policy produced the extensive uniform appearance of today's forest with its often unfittingly stocked sites. On the other hand, efforts made over the past 40 years to introduce a naturalistic silviculture are becoming visible. At the present time the yield is not even half of the growth, even though the potential could now be used to the full. This is due, in part, to unfavourable economic circumstances but also to the high proportion of small tracts of privately-owned forest which makes up 67% of the forest area. The current inappreciative attitude towards the forest will only be overcome in Appenzellerland – as anywhere else – when the value of the forest in all its diverse achievements,as well as the value of its wood are recognised and respected by the general public. |
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