Their signatures set the new operation plan in place (from left): Christopher Fischer, city forester, Marcel Guignard, Mayor, Alain Morier, head of the Forestry Division of the Canton Aargau, René Bircher, council Biberstein, and Lawrence Bader, business plan writers.
Source: Christoph Voellmy
Premiere at the forest enterprise in the region: the first time, the forestry operations of Aarau, Biberstein and Unterentfelden a joint operating plan created. This includes, together with a description of the condition of forests, the objectives for the next 15 years. Manuel Bühlmann
What is the entrepreneur's business plan, the forester of the operating plan. Such an instrument is also working city forester Christoph Fischer and his team. Approximately every 15 years must provide the public forest owners a new operating plan. Thus, the law requires. The latest version comes up with a premiere: For the first time, the municipalities Aarau, Biberstein and Unterentfelden a common operating plan for all its forests developed.
Forest management: Forest area as big as 1,000 football fields
Forest management Aarau manages approximately 665 of the total of 710 hectares of forest area. The forests, which are owned by the association communities lying in the field of nine different communities in the cantons of Aargau and Solothurn. With a share of 60 percent dominated by hardwood tree species such as ash, maple or beech. The latter is the most common tree.
The remaining 40 percent are coniferous tree species. These include spruce, fir and larch. The supply of wood is around 208 000 cubic meters. According to city forester is highly productive forest soils, growing annually by about 4 percent of the total supply. In contrast, 3.8 percent are of growing stock, which hit every year. Half of it is used inter alia for the production of veneer, furniture and boards. 15 percent are industrial wood, which arise out of paper and chipboard. The rest is used as fuel wood for heating wood chips or wood stoves and fireplace. (Mbü)
Boundless management
This is the logical consequence of the merger on the forestry operation Aarau in 2008, says Christoph Fischer. "Since then, will be managed in the forests without regard to municipal boundaries." The merger of the individual companies at that time was undisputed at the community meetings and in Einwohnerrat Aarau.
Inventory of the forest
One and a half years of work were needed to finalize the operating plan, which have signed the cantonal and municipal representatives yesterday in the game park Roggenhausen. The expense is considerable - in the future with only one reason to create another report. Because the report is included in addition to a review of the past and the objectives for the next 15 years, a description of the current situation. "An inventory of the forest," Christoph Fischer calls it. It would be seen where and what trees are, the damage that the storms have left or how many seats there are.
Using aerial photographs, soil maps and surveys on site appreciate the forest waiting to wood supplies. These figures will determine how much wood can be cut per year. The next 15 years will grow according to plan operations more wood than can be beaten. "The storms Lothar and Vivian have diminished the supplies," justified Christoph Fischer.
Recreation areas will
Although timber production is still the core competence in the management plan are the conservation and recovery of function key issues. In the latter area, the three municipalities for the preservation of the status quo have spoken. For the present, therefore no additional benches, fire pits or huts are planned.
