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Pskov Model Forest (PMF)
Partners and active participants of the Project
The Goal of PMF Project
Work Outline of Pskov Model Forest Project
Establishing mechanisms of sustainable forest management
Project address
  PSKOV MODEL FOREST (PMF) Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 
Pskov Model Forest area covers 18,400 hectares of forestland located in Strugo-Krasnensky District of Pskov Oblast, Northwest Russia. Local landscapes vary from swampy flat plains to elevated sites. The area belongs to the sub-zone of the southern taiga with predominant species of pine, birch, aspen, and spruce. Broad-leaved species are found along rivers and streams.

The area received a model forest status in 2000.


Pskov Model Forest project was initiated by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). Today WWF is the world's largest non-governmental international ecological organization. Among WWF's projects in Russia priority is given to the establishment and support of a unique system of protected nature areas, the protection of rare species of animals and plants, programs of sustainable nature use, support for environmental education, and the development of a program of forest conservation and sustainable forest use. The Fund's forest policy aims not only to establish an ecologically representative network of protected areas for old-growth forests, but also to develop mechanisms of sustainable forest management for intensively exploited forests. To reach this goal, the Fund is creating a network of model forests in Russia. Currently forest projects are under way in the Komi Republic, in the Far East and in the Altai Sayan Region. Pskov Model Forest project will be the next step in the development of the model forest network.
  PARTNERS AND ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS OF THE PROJECT Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 

Russian organizations:
• Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation
• Administration of Pskov Oblast
• Administration of Strugo-Krasnensky District of Pskov Region
• Forestry Agency for Pskov Oblast
• Northwest Forest Inventory Enterprise
• St. Petersburg Forestry Research Institute

International organizations:
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
• Stora Enso Oyj
• WWF Germany
  THE GOAL OF PMF PROJECT Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 
The goal of the Pskov Model Forest Project (PMF) is to develop and implement an economically efficient, environmentally sound and socially beneficial forest management model in a specific territory and disseminate the project’s positive outcomes in Northwest Russia.

The main objective of Phase I (2000-2004) was to develop and implement basic methods of more intensive and sustainable forest management in the project’s model forest area.

The main objective of Phase II (2005-2008) is to implement and disseminate a model for more intensive and sustainable forest management in 4 Subjects of the Russian Federation (Leningrad, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, and Vologda Oblasts).
  WORK OUTLINE OF PSKOV MODEL FOREST PROJECT Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 

ECONOMIC UNIT
 

Objective: ensure economic stability
of the forest complex
Co-operate with the regional and local administrations in improving the system of forest taxes;
Analyze advantages and shortcomings of different methods of forest use (leasing, auctioning);
Improve marketing of forest products for small logging businesses;
Establish mechanisms balancing mutual economic interests of Leskhoz enterprises, logging companies, state bodies and local self-government;
Develop forestry and forest use methods that are based on forecasting forest fund dynamics allowing for the optimal combination of economic requirements and ecological restrictions;
Introduce and promote modern machinery and technology.

 

SOCIAL UNIT

Objective: promote community involvement
in forestry decision making
Determine forms of involvement for the local community and the public of the region in the forestry decision making process:
• participate in forest management meetings,
• hold public hearings,
• arrange community center;
Create a system of public access to information on forest management, forest use and the distribution of forest income:
• set up an information center,
• hold community meetings;
Increase public awareness of sustainable forest management (SFM):
• develop educational programs;
Support public participation in the solution of forest problems.
 

ECOLOGICAL UNIT

Objective: ensure and support environmental functions
of forests including conservation of biodiversity
Monitor the impact of different forestry practices on the condition of forests;
Develop the system of activities in forestry aimed at maintaining biodiversity and stability of ecosystems including water resources and soils;
Establish criteria and indicators of biological diversity;
Develop and apply landscape planning method.
  ESTABLISHING MECHANISMS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 
Upgrade forest inventory planning systems
Develop criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management on the level of a forest management unit (Leskhoz);
Determine the purpose oriented structure of forests according to the ecological and economic requirements of SFM;
Develop information systems for the Leskhoz and the Forest Inventory Enterprise on the basis of geo-information systems (GIS) including the automatic management system of the Leskhoz;
Establish an information system to:
• calculate the forecast of the forest dynamics according to alternative scenarios of forest use with proper consideration for ecological restrictions and economic requirements,
• assess the acceptable amount of forest use based on the approved scenario.
Increase the effectiveness of forest management
and forest use systems
Work out requirements and regional standards of local forest inventory planning and forest management (cutting and renewal rules, taxation norms, etc.);
Develop a new cutting plan based on the results of landscape planning.
Establish a personnel training center on the model territory
Create demonstration grounds for different types of felling, renewal, stand cleaning, etc. in accordance with the local peculiarities;
Demonstrate GIS-technologies;
Teach principles of landscape planning to the forest inventory staff;
Teach landscape forest management to the forest management staff.
Promote innovative activities.
Initiate the process of certification
Analyze current standards and criteria of voluntary forest certification;
Inform the interested parties about the goals and objectives of voluntary forest certification;
Conduct voluntary forest certification of non-timber resources and forest management on the model territory;
Promote the program of developing forest strategies on the regional level.
  PROJECT ADDRESS Ê íà÷àëó ñòðàíèöû
 

Activities of Pskov Model Forest project are based on the Agreement between the Federal Forest Service of Russia and WWF on cooperation in the area of sustainable forest management and conservation of biodiversity and the Agreement between the Forest Committee of the Pskov Region and WWF on implementing Pskov Model Forest project.

181110 Pskov Region
Strugi Krasnie
18 Kholokhinskaya St.
Tel (81132) 51187

Contact Persons:
Ekaterina Chernenkova,
leader of project Pskov Model Forest project
Tel +7 (812) 552-8019, +7 (495) 727 0939
e-mail: echernenkova@wwf.ru

Boris Romanyuk,
scientific director of Pskov Model Forest project
Tel +7 (812) 552-8019
e-mail: roman@forest.spb.su

Activities of Pskov Model Forest project are based on the Agreement between the Federal Forest Service of Russia and WWF on cooperation in the area of sustainable forest management and conservation of biodiversity and the Agreement between the Forest Committee of Pskov Region and WWF on implementing Pskov Model Forest project.


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