00:00 Introduction, what the video will be about. The video will be about conflicts between environmental activists and foresters, about the mistakes foresters make when communicating with the public.
02:34 I am very sorry that forestry is only a marginal topic in the public and in the media. People have no relationship with nature.
04:14 Information about national parks that you didn’t know. They have different degrees of protection. About the degrees of protection – Slovak legislation. Most of the area of national parks is in the third degree of protection. The second degree of protection – building forest roads only with permission. The 5th degree of protection is the highest degree of protection, we also call it a reserve, there is no intervention, there is a ban on cleaning stream beds, which can cause floods, it is not possible to take measures against the bark beetle, it is forbidden to cut down invasive non-native tree species. Permission for exceptions is a rarity. Activists imagine total non-intervention as the only way to protect nature, which is not always desirable. In the Belianske Tatras, according to all indications, spruce monocultures are also in the fifth degree of protection, which is very bad, because it is not possible to fight the bark beetle. Then rare primeval forests are also attacked by the bark beetle, say foresters.
10:13 Why are there so many clearcuts and logging areas in the Low Tatras? Foresters failed, they started fighting the bark beetle too late, the bark beetle multiplied and destroyed entire stands.
10:50 basics of forest management: nature-friendly management = selection method, undergrowth management method, it looks like a cleared strip, it looks like a meadow. The concept of natural regeneration,
16:05 Why are the bark beetle calamity and clear-cutting not economically advantageous for foresters, but rather loss-making? Overly thinned stands – selective felling – are overgrown with grass.
What is a selection?
Beech is among the most successful tree species in natural rejuvenation and natural regeneration.
In a beech-oak stand, non-intervention / self-development could cause complications, as beech would displace oak.
23:11 Why is more logging taking place in Slovakia, even in deciduous forests, than in the past? The reason is the poor age distribution of forest stands. A larger area of forest stands is in the optimal felling age, they are already of a high age. Source of information here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV0pN1PzPtQ
Radio show The Call of the Forest
26:17 mistakes of foresters – they are bad managers in the broad sense of the word, poor communication with the public, they should establish a functioning non-governmental organization whose goal would be communication with the public, the media, communication on social networks, organizing private and public discussions with environmental conservation activists
28:44 the well-known forester Pavel Zacharovský. He is the head of the Vyšná Boca forest association: although I agree with 90% of what he says, he also makes very misleading arguments that give the entire forestry community a bad name. Zacharovský blamed ecological conservation activists for the large-scale logging and the spruce bark beetle infestation, which is not true. Zacharovský broke the law by allowing himself to be persuaded by the activists’ foolish experiment of non-intervention. The law requires him to deal with the calamity. Zacharovský speaks as if the conservationists had declared a 5th degree of protection on his forest association, which is not true.
32:57 a huge mistake by the State Forests, which may have been well-intentioned, but it was insane stupidity. Environmental activists, such as We Are the Forest, rightly criticized it very sharply https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/632701/lesy-sme-my-statny-podnik-bojuje-s-aktivistami-milionovou-kampanou /
Foresters should communicate with the public at press conferences, not through commercials.
Zakharova spread false conspiracies that the media had conspired against foresters
38:26 Zacharovský is pouring oil on the fire and creating tension between the two camps of opinion, between environmental activists and foresters. Activists also harshly confronted him about his arrogance.
40:52 foresters underestimated consulting with lawyers – they could avoid unnecessary bureaucracy, e.g. access roads
How activist Juraj Lukáč took revenge on Zacharovský
Another form of revenge by activists in response to Zakharov’s poor communication. Tension between the camps of opinion.
45:15 monocultures in the 5th protection level
Tichá and Kôprová valleys should not be in the 5th degree. Foresters claim that only rowan grows there, which looks quite miserable.
48:35 natural and natural forest – even foresters themselves have a problem with distinguishing the definition of these terms
Genetic material of trees from the same location
How they expanded the forest in state forests using a bulldozer – a very good tip for foresters
53:45 third-sector environmental forestry activists, We Are the Forest, the Vlk Forest Protection Association, the problem is that they have no experts, no foresters in their ranks
There are doubts about the activist Karol Kaliský’s Ing. title.
The Vlk Forest Protection Association are not trustworthy activists, they have never planted any trees or organized garbage collection in the forest, of which there is plenty.
If activism is in line with scientific knowledge, then it is good, but if it is in conflict, such activism is harmful.
Non-intervention as a panacea, non-intervention in spruce monocultures – spruce plantations
59:44 protection of the capercaillie, as foresters and conservationists imagine it, protecting capercaillie predators, non-intervention vs. commercial forests
Huge subsidies from EU funds, enthusiasts from the third sector, not experts, embezzlement of EU funds, the minister is probably also part of the corruption scheme, evidence
01:05:00 Ladislav Miko – who is he? Why is this man pouring oil on the fire and driving a wedge between activists and foresters?
He spread a hoax in favor of non-intervention in spruce monocultures
Braňo Závodský Live, Ladislav Miko – We have to explain to the European Commission how we will change our approach to logging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u85a6dzkP9 M
Communication between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of the Environment has failed.
01:11:00 on the communication of foresters with the public