Rules of logging. Overview of general provisions

The new rules for harvesting wood include 66 basic items, which are divided into four parts.

The general provisions of the rules explain the general concepts of carrying out work on timber harvesting, the requirements for sanitary and fire safety in forest areas. It also focuses on the rules of forest care and work on its restoration.

Harvesting of wood for the own needs of citizens is carried out in accordance with the established standards. The basis for the work is the existence of a contract for the purchase and sale of forest plantations. For people residing in Siberia, the Far East and the North, the harvesting of timber for their own needs of citizens can be carried out free of charge in the places of their permanent residence and economic work.

The new rules for harvesting wood include provisions for taxation and removal of logging areas, determining the permissible standards for cutting areas, as well as the basic rules for identifying and establishing the boundaries of logging sites. According to the rules, it is necessary to first establish the boundaries, and then carry out a taxation. At the same time, qualitative characteristics and volume of wood intended for harvesting are determined. The carrying out of these works is confirmed by an accounting document (sheet of the calculation of plantations determined for cutting).

New rules for harvesting wood also determine the methods and types of cutting, the methods of using wood. Thus, logging can be carried out in the form of continuous or selective cuttings. Solid felling is allowed only if the conditions for reforestation are met. The intensity of selective felling is determined in accordance with the volume of wood cut in one step. Appendix No. 2 defines the parameters of the sites for carrying out solid forms of cutting of ripe, overmature plantations.

The new rules for logging establish the requirements under which the procurement activities are organized and carried out. An obligatory condition is the drawing up of a technological map of development for cutting areas, according to the data on tap and taxation. In addition, the technological map includes the deadlines and technology of harvesting operations, the layout of roads, warehouses, loading points, parking facilities and other maintenance facilities, as well as the area and percentage of conservation of growth and plantation of the second tier. When compiling the map, the methods of cleaning from the remnants of cuttings, types of works preventing erosion processes, and other characteristics are indicated.

Upon completion of harvesting works, the logging site is inspected and its condition assessed. Verification of cutting areas has the right to produce authorized authorities (local or state). A notice is sent to the timber collector, indicating the date and time of the inspection of the plots.

Correspondence (non-compliance) with the rules of carrying out procurement activities are indicated in the act of inspection of cutting areas. Thus, the forest ranger is entitled to verify the compliance of the cut down volume of the forest with the permitted standards. In addition, his duties include control over the restoration of the forest after logging.

One of the significant moments is the possibility to transfer the annual rate of cutting down for subsequent periods, distributing the limit for three years.

In addition, according to the new provisions on forest plots, it is possible not to cut down old trees. The former rules obliged them to cut them, despite the fact that it was not always profitable. According to the adopted rules, a provision allowing the preservation of old plantations is introduced.