| Forestry comprises all organizations whose activity is based on establishing, regenerating, and protecting forests, as well as on felling and game management in connection with forest operations. Figures on forestry are reported on CZSO annual questionnaires completed and submitted by incorporated businesses, which have 20+ employees and forestry as their principal activity (CZ-NACE 02), and by businesses, which manage forest land 200 ha or more in area. Data underlying the ones presented in this chapter embrace figures from the questionnaire above, including forest land area figures, customs statistics and figures from users’ organisations, which were grossed up to the whole Czech Republic. Besides, the chapter also contains figures on hunting (CZ-NACE 01.5). Notes on tables Table 15-1. Key forestry indicators See Chapter 10. Labour and Chapter 16A. Industry for methodological explanatory notes on the indicators. Table 15-2. Forest ownership To present information on the types of ownership in this Yearbook, the following breakdown by type of forest-managing enterprise has been chosen: - state-managed forests - i.e. forests owned by the enterprise Lesy ČR s. p., some ministries, national parks and school forest enterprises,
- municipality-managed forests - i.e. all forests owned by municipalities irrespective of the way of management,
- privately-managed forests - i.e. forests owned by natural persons,
- other forests - i.e. forests owned and managed by forest cooperatives and singular companies.
Table 15-3. Forest categorisation Protection forests comprise forests on extraordinary adverse sites (such as scree, steep slope, ravine, peatland, spoil ground); high-altitude forests below the tree vegetation line, which protect forests at lower altitudes; forests on exposed ridges; and forests growing in the dwarf forest vegetation zone. Special purpose forests are forests used for other purposes than production of wood. They include forests of national parks and national nature reserves and forests growing in degree I water protection zones and natural curative and table mineral water protection zones. They also include health-resort forests; suburban (recreation) forests; forests belonging to forest research institutes and schools; forests with enhanced soil-protection, water-protection, climatic and landscape-forming functions; forests in recognized game reserves and pheasantries; and forests needed to preserve biological heterogeneity. Commercial (production) forests include land with forest stands, whose prevailing function is to produce wood. Tables 15-4 to 15-6 and 15-8. Areas under tree species, afforestation/reforestation by tree species, consumption of transplants, land for afforestation/reforestation Afforestation/reforestation refers to the area artificially afforested/reforested (including established plantations) by sowing and planting (i.e. natural regeneration of forest is excluded). Included are areas afforested, and areas improved by and/or supplemented with forest plantations and tree species from natural seeding, all converted into the total area of new forest. Tables 15-9 and 15-10. Timber removal and supplies Timber removal comprises (a) felled tree volume of large and small timber measured in m3 u.b. accepted as final assortment or whole-stem logs and (b) so-called self-production felling. The volume is counted in irrespective of what kind of silvicultural or felling measures it was obtained from and includes salvage felling. Self-production refers to the felling of timber obtained by a person (or organization) carrying out the harvest, fully or in part, for a fixed charge or even free of charge. Self-production supplies population with fuelwood in particular and is practised in compliance with specific regulations and instructions. Timber supplies includes the volume of large and small timber prepared for domestic and foreign customers and delivered for own consumption irrespective of place of delivery.
The figures listed in the tables are comparable with the figures in the Yearbooks for previous years.
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More detailed data are shown in the following CZSO publication brought out according to the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2003 (group 2 - ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE, subgroup 22 - Forestry): - “Lesnictví a myslivost v roce 2002.”, in May 2003.
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