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DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST BIOMASS MANAGEMENT PLANS Setting up of integrated strategies for the development of renewable energies www.proforbiomed.eu Work package 4: Setting up of integrated strategies for the development of renewable energies FINAL REPORTS OF PILOT ACTIONS PILOT ACTION 1.7 DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST BIOMASS MANAGEMENT PLANS September 2014 1 Partner: General Direction of the Environment. Murcia Region This report was supported by project "Promotion and renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency" (acronym: Proforbiomed), a strategic project under objective 2.2 of the MED Programme. MED Programme is an EU transnational cooperation programme among the “Territorial Cooperation objective” of the EU Cohesion Policy. Authors: Roque Pérez Palazón1,, Ana Atienza Pérez1, Pilar Durante Hernández2, Consuelo Hurtado Lucas2, David Sancho Cabrero3, Louis-Michel Duhen4, Nicolas Joly4, Nike Krajnc5, Tine Premrl5, Pilar Ara6, Javier Hermoso6, Mª Carmen Cabanes7, Amparo Bielsa7, José Luis Miñana7, Raquel Moreno7, Lorenzo Ciccarese8, Piera Pellegrino8, Pietro Bianco8, Valerio Silli8, Massimo Pizzuto Antinoro9, Donato Salvatore La Mela Veca10, Antonio Ballarin Denti11, Eleonora Fontanarosa11, Mita Lapi11, Mauro Masiero11, Dimitris Kouras12, Akis Papadelis12, Dimitris Tsimplinas12, Susana Oliveira13; Miguel Nunes13, António Miranda14, João Martins14. Institutions involved: 1.- Servicio de Gestión y Protección Forestal. Dirección General de Medio Ambiente. Consejería de Agricultura y Agua. Región de Murcia 2.- External expertise 3.- Grupo Generala, S.L. 4.- Centre régional de la propriété forestière de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 5.- Slovenian Forestry Institute 6.- Dirección General del Medio Natural. Conselleria de Infraestructuras, Territorio y Medio Ambiente. Generalitat Valenciana 7.- VAERSA. 8.- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA). 9.- Dipartimento Regionale dello Sviluppo Rurale e Territoriale, Regione Siciliana 10.- Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Università di Palermo 11.- Fondazione Lombardia per l'Ambiente (FLA) 12.- Region of Western Macedonia/Regional Development Fund 13.- Algar – Valorização e Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos, S.A. 14.- Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, I. P., (ICNF) 2 Contents AUTHORS: ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED: ....................................................................................................................................... 2 CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 TABLE OF FIGURES: .................................................................................................................................................. 4 1 BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................................................. 5 2 OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 3 PARTNERS INVOLVED ....................................................................................................................................... 6 4 COMMON ACTIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 9 4.1 LEGISLATION ................................................................................................................................................. 9 4.1.1 Legal framework of each partner ...................................................................................................... 9 4.1.2 Compilation of the main legal guidelines ........................................................................................ 11 4.1.3 Main measures to avoid deterioration and disturbance in Natura 2000 sites ................................ 11 4.2 GENERAL METHODOLOGY FOR THE DRAFTING OF A FOREST BIOMASS MANAGEMENT PLAN. ...................................... 15 SAMPLING PLOTS ........................................................................................................................................ 15 4.3 TECHNICAL GUIDE OF CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE OF A MANAGEMENT PLAN: ........................................................ 15 INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS: FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS ............................................................................... 16 4.4 FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS SUMMARY......................................................................................................... 16 4.4.1 Description of the pilot areas chosen by each partner .................................................................... 16 4.4.1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 16 4.4.1.2 Legal justification for management plans elaboration ................................................................................................. 18 4.4.1.3 Pilot area basic data ...................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.4.2 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 40 4.4.2.1 Forest inventory methodology ..................................................................................................................................... 40 4.4.2.2 Forest inventory zoning methodology and growing stock assessment ........................................................................ 46 4.4.3 Forest management planning process ............................................................................................. 70 4.4.3.1 Main species ................................................................................................................................................................. 76 4.4.3.2 Management method ................................................................................................................................................... 79 4.4.3.3 Regenerative cutting or selected treatment ................................................................................................................. 81 4.4.3.4 Rotation and regeneration period (or normalization) .................................................................................................. 82 4.4.3.5 Allowable cutting study ................................................................................................................................................ 83 4.4.3.6 Mean timber and biomass volume obtained ................................................................................................................ 92 4.4.3.7 Economic balance: income and expense ...................................................................................................................... 95 4.4.3.8 Manager or owners preferences towards wood biomass utilization ........................................................................... 99 5 ELABORATED DOCUMENTS AND TOOLS, FOR FOREST BIOMASS MANAGEMENT PLANS DRAFTING ........ 101 6 INDIVIDUAL CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................... 105 6.1 ADVANTAGES OF EACH USED METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................. 106 6.2 SWOT ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................... 109 7 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS .............................................................................................................................. 118 7.1 MOST USED INVENTORY AND SAMPLING TYPES ............................................................................................... 120 7.2 MOST-USED MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT TYPES ........................................................................................ 120 7.3 SUITABILITY OF TRADITIONAL SILVICULTURAL HARVESTING VS. BIOMASS/ENERGETIC HARVESTING ............................ 120 8 FINAL CONCLUSIONS. GENERAL EVALUATION OF ACTION 1.7 (WP 4) ........................................................ 124 9 ANNEXES ...................................................................................................................................................... 127 9.1 SUMMARY OF METHODOLOGIES USED IN THE DIFFERENT FOREST BIOMASS MANAGEMENT PLANS. 127 9.2 SUMMARY OF SWOT ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................. 136 10 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................ 139 11 UNITS OF MEASURE AND ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................................. 140 12 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................................. 140 3 Table of figures: Figure 1: Map of Natura 2000 sites,