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FOREST RESOURCES
Zasoby leśne, fot. Paweł Pochocki
Zasoby leśne, fot. Mariusz Grondys
Zasoby leśne, fot. Paweł Pochocki
The forests of the Forest District Świebodzin includes 318 forest complexes. Three the largest forest complexes cover the total area of 13 180,16 ha (56% of the Forest District area). The Forest District consists of 5 bigger forest complexes - each over 500 ha, with the total forest area of 5507,43 ha, what is 23 % of the administered area. Small complexes (with their forest areas between 20-500 ha) cover 4142, 34 ha in total, constituting 18% of the Forest District area. The other complexes, constituting 3 % of the area, form mainly small (several dozen acres or several hectares) forest areas, which are located close to the bigger complexes.
The forestation of the territorial range of The Forest District Świebodzin equals over 42 %. Its remaining lands constitute mainly agricultural sites and – to a lesser degree – developed and urbanised areas, idle lands, ground under the water and other different territories.
The main forest - forming tree species is here Pine, which makes over 84 % of the forest stands. Bigger – alders cover only 0,3 %.
Economic meaning has also got beech, birch, alder and Cornish oak. The share of the other tree species is slight and does not exaggerate over 2 % of the area.
In total, share of coniferous tree species equals 85,9%, and deciduous tree species equals 14,1% of the forest areas of the Forest District.
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HUNTING
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Łowiectwo, fot. Jerzy Malicki
The areas of the Forest District Świebodzin, concerning hunting, belong to II Hunting Region. Within this area in 8 hunting districts, there manages 5 hunting associations and the Pedigree Breeding Establishment (OHZ). The hunting district 104 operates in the area of 9560 ha, including 5510 ha of the forests, while the hunting district 114 operates in the total area of 7280 ha, including 4345 ha of the forests.
The state of the hunting game within the area of the Forest District Świebodzin during the hunting period 2013/2014 presented as follows:
- 678h head of stags including 262 head of harts,
- 1941 head of deer including 696 head of cuckold,
- 1014 head of wild boars,
- 144 head of fallow deer including 57 head of harts.
Within the area of the Pedigree Breeding Establishment (OHZ) in the hunting district 114, there is a cold storage to keep hunted game, which is used by two hunting districts.
The Forest District Świebodzin, undertaking actions to the benefit of adverse tendencies in the quantity of European hares and grey partridges, in 2004, established the net – cage farms of hares within the area of the Pedigree Breeding Establishment (OHZ) of the State Forests. In 2005, there started the aviary breeding of grey partridges. The aim of the animal breeding is to breed appropriate number of European hares and grey partridges accustomed to live in natural conditions and to restore their species through their re – introduction in the areas of the proper site conditions for the above mentioned species.
In 2015, in the Forest District Świebodzin, there reopened the Closed Fallow Deer Breeding Farm. The aim of this undertaking is re - introduction and strengthening the gene pool of this species within the whole west belt of the country controlled by the State Forests.
