2. Slovenia Forest Service and Slovenian Forests
“Caring for forests to benefit nature and people”
Slovenia Forest Service and Slovenian Forests

3. Structure of this presentation:
Basic data about Slovenian forests and forestry
Slovenia Forest Service organizational structure
Human resources in SFS
Main tasks of Slovenia Forest Service
Recent natural calamities in Slovenian forests

4. Some milestones from history:
Forest area in Slovenia – year ,4%;
Forest area in ,4 %;
First forest management plan ;
First forestry school ;
Re-forestation of Karst region in 19th century;
Prohibition of clearcuts ;
New forest act in 1993 and …?

5. Slovenian forests - basic data (2014)
forest area mio ha
58,3 % of Slovenia
75 % private forest,
23 % state forest
2 % local communities
Growing stock:
346 million m3 (293 m3 /ha)
Annual increment:
8,6 million m3 (7,27 m3 /ha)

6. Forest area in Slovenia:

7. Slovenian forests - ownership
Number of forest owners: 314,000 ( )
Average forest property: 2.6 – 2.8 ha

8. Slovenian forests - felling
Annual increment: 8,5 millions m3 (7,2 m3 /ha)
Planned (allowable) cut: 5.7 millions m3/year
Annual cut (2013): 4 million m3 (65 % of possible cut)

9. Composition of forests: coniferous trees:47 %, broad-leaved trees :53 %
Share of coniferous trees in % of growing stock

10. Main actors in Slovenian forestry:
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment
Slovenia Forest Service
Slovenian Forestry Institute
Faculty for Forestry and Renewable resources
Found for Agricultural Land and Forests
Forest enterprises
Agriculture and Forestry chamber
Private forest owners associations
Forestry societies and their associations

11. Slovenia Forest Service
Forest Act 1993
Constituted in May 1994
Main fields of work and budget sources:
Public forestry service (Forest Act),
Public service at the field of wildlife management (ZDL),
Supervision on the field of nature conservation (ZON),
Management of hunting areas with special purpose
EU projects
Commercial activities (management plans, education, …)

12. Central unit
14 regional units,
69 local units,
396 forest districts
10 hunting reserves

13. Slovenia Forest Service – employees:
730 employees – 620 foresters
60 hunters
50 support staff
Central unit (headquarters) – 30 employees
Regional units – 620 employees
(370 district foresters)

14. Main working fields of Slovenia Forest Service:
Forest management planning
Silviculture and forest protection
Forest technology and rural development
Wildlife and hunting
Extension for forest owners
Education of SFS staff – HRM
Popularization of forests

15. Forest management plannning
National Forest Programme
Regional FMP
FMP for forest management unit
Silvicultural plan
2014 yearly report:
19 plans for forest management units ( ha)
ha silvicultural plans
2100 cases within spatial planning procedures

16. Silviculture and forest protection
Silvicultural plans
Tending of young forests
Regeneration
Protection of forests
Subsidies
Tree marking
2014 yearly report:
6.9 milion m3 marking of trees (6.35 actally harvested)
2600 ha of tending works
750 ha - regeneration
5000 working days – forest protection
legal decisions 16

17. Forest technologies, forest roads
Maintaining
Constructing
Information system
2014 yearly report:
felling sites checked
416 km skidding tracks constructed
7000 km maintenance of forest roads 17

18. Extension, rural development
Courses and practical demonstrations
Lecturers
Presentations
Competitions
Publications
Appearances in media
2014 yearly report:
171 seminars and courses
3800 participants
31 excursions
Individual consulting 18

19. Education of staff and public (awareness raising)
Lecturers
Work shops
Printing materials
Excursions
Practical courses
Forest pedagogy
2014 yearly report:
800 events for youngsters and general public
participants
478 events for schools ( participants)
Media 19

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21. Icebreak in Slovenian Forests (30th January – 10th February 2014)21

22. Icebreak in Slovenian Forests (30th January – 10th February 2014)22

23. Eisbreak consequences in Slovenian forests
ha (51 %) of forests
9 mio m3 damaged wood
km of blocked forest roads
ha – reestablishment of new forest
214 mio EUR – financial damage 23

24. Priority tasks in forest restoration plan (10.april 2014):
Ensuring safety in the woods
Ensure transportability of forest roads
Prevent secondary damage to undamaged trees due to bark beetles and other pests
Maintaining the quality or value of damaged valuable trees
Maintaining the productive potential of forests in the damaged areas
The preservation of ecological and social functions of forests in damaged areas 24

25. Bark-beetle atack in 2015, 2016: 2014 – 400.000 m3 2015 – 2.100.00 m3
2016 – m3 (31/august/2016)

26. Bark-beetle atack in 2015, 2016:

27. Z vidika varstva gozdov pred škodljivimi organizmi so najbolj ogroženi gozdovi iglavcev, zlasti smreke. Vsaki obsežni naravni ujmi praviloma sledi namnožitev podlubnikov.
Na karti so predstavljena območja s poškodovanimi iglavci.
Z vidika varstva pred podlubniki so problematična tudi manj poškodovana območja z razpršenimi poškodbami.
Sveže poškodovani iglavci delujejo kot lovna drevesa za podlubnike. V kolikor s podlubniki napadeno poškodovano drevje ni pravočasno sanirano, pride do namnožitve podlubnikov.
Ko so podlubniki namnoženi lahko uspešno napadejo tudi vitalna, nepoškodovana drevesa. 27