project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group

Natural Tuscany Douglas woods (DO.NA.TO.)
Douglasiete Naturali Toscane (DO.NA.TO.)

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Completed | 2019 - 2021 Italy
Completed | 2019 - 2021 Italy
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Objectives

Aims:
- Reduce the costs (environmental, economic, landscape, social)
- Enhance the Douglasia timber supply chain
- To valorize the wood of douglasia by identifying alternative and advantageous forms of use
- Qualify the nurserical supply chain of Tuscany for the production of the planting stock
- To increase the disponibility of douglasia timber in order to increase of surface
- Stimulate the acquisition of knowledge and enhance the professionalism of forest operators operating in the public and private sectors

Objectives

Obiettivi del progetto:
- Ridurre i costi (ambientali, economici, paesaggistici)
- Creare una filiera toscana del legno di douglasia
- Valorizzare il legname di douglasia individuando forme d’impiego alternative e più remunerative, favorendo la qualificazione del legname tondo, incrementando a lungo termine la disponibilità del legname
- Qualificare la filiera vivaistica del postime di douglasia
- Incrementare a lungo termine la disponibilità di legname di Douglasia
- Stimolare l’acquisizione delle conoscenze e la professionalità degli operatori
- Promuovere una pianificazione sovraziendale

Activities

- Implementation of demonstration interventions in the experimental areas
- Monitoring the growth of the regeneration of the stand and development of management protocols
- Dissemination of information on the results achieved
- Restoration of the experimental parcels at Faltona and construction of two experimental arboretums
- Identification of advantageous forms of use of douglasia timber and classification of the same
- Training of operators

Activities

- Realizzazione degli interventi dimostrativi
- Monitoraggi sull’andamento della rinnovazione dei soprassuoli e messa a punto dei protocolli di gestione
- Diffusione delle informazioni in merito ai risultati conseguiti
- Restauro della parcella comparativa IUFRO e dell’arboreto di discendenze di Faltona-AR e realizzazione di due nuovi Campi Catalogo
- Progettazione della filiera del legno di douglasia toscana
- Individuazione di forme di impiego del legname di douglasia più Remunerative
- Formazione degli operatori

Kontext

The cultivation of Douglasia in Tuscany is about 3.400 hectares of pure woods and another 4.000 hectares of mixed forests, of which about a quarter is in possession of the Operating Group partners. This species is able to offer the grower large productions in a short time potentially of high technological quality.
For the renewal of the stands you can refer to cultural models that provide for the natural renewal, already implemented in France and Germany, which involves a saving on the costs of planting, does not require additional costs for protection systems against damage from wildlife, guarantees the improvement of the bioecological conditions of the stands. Putting to natural renewal even only half of the douglasia stands present in Tuscany would lead to significant savings for companies, while at the same time obtaining more efficient and stable stands than those obtainable with artificial renewal. Tuscany could also represent a model of management of douglasia in temperate areas in relation to the effect of climate change on forest ecosystems.
Another fundamental issue is the need to enhance the wood that is underutilized in Italy. In fact, experiences beyond the Alps indicate a vast and continuous use of the trunks of douglasia for the production of beams, profiles, laminated wood, unlike what is found in Italy, where most of our local douglasia is destined for packaging.

Project details
Main funding source
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
Rural Development Programme
2014IT06RDRP010 Italy - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Toscana
Ort
Main geographical location
Firenze
Other geographical location
Arezzo, Pistoia

€ 361621.5

Total budget

Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.

Ressourcen

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1 Practice Abstracts

Part of the objectives that the GO had set itself with the implementation of the strategic plan have been achieved. We think of the dissemination of knowledge on Douglas fir and its enormous potential as a forest species with multiple values, the promotion of natural renewal, the installation of demonstration areas on innovative silvicultural treatments for Italy but already extensively tested abroad (subsequent cuts and irregular high forests), the professionalization of operators, the identification of additional areas to be used for the cultivation of Douglas fir, the promotion of supra-company planning, the conservation of the genetic collections of Faltona and Vallombrosa-Spedalinga, the creation of a relational network between the partners we believe it will go beyond the term of the PS keeping the GO at least ideally alive.

The foundations were then laid for the achievement of other objectives, which by their nature escape the possibility of direct control by our GO, such as the structuring of a stable Tuscan Douglas wood supply chain over time, the enhancement of timber, the qualification of the nursery supply chain, the effective reduction of costs (economic, environmental, landscape) and social conflicts (related to the execution of level cuts) of the cultivation of Douglas fir.

The GO closes by highlighting how the Douglas fir can represent a great opportunity for the enhancement of Apennine forestry, favoring, with a careful management of the stands, the creation of non-ephemeral job opportunities and ideally projected towards the future, given the growing demand for timber of quality and the climate neutrality objectives of anthropogenic activities that Europe has set itself to achieve by 2050

Sono stati raggiunti solo parte degli obiettivi che il GO si era prefissato come ad es. la diffusione delle conoscenze sull'abete Douglas e sulle sue enormi potenzialità quale specie forestale dai molteplici usi, alla promozione del rinnovamento naturale, all'installazione di aree dimostrative sui trattamenti selvicolturali innovativi per l'Italia ma già ampiamente sperimentati all'estero (tagli successivi e forestali), la professionalizzazione degli operatori, l'individuazione di ulteriori aree da destinare alla coltivazione dell'abete di Douglas, la promozione della pianificazione sovraaziendale, la conservazione delle collezioni genetiche di Faltona e Vallombrosa-Spedalinga, la creazione di una rete relazionale tra i partner.

Sono state poi poste le basi per il raggiungimento di altri obiettivi, che per loro natura sfuggono alla possibilità di controllo diretto del nostro GO, come la strutturazione di una filiera del legno di Douglas toscano stabile nel tempo, la valorizzazione del legname, la qualificazione del filiera vivaistica, l'effettiva riduzione dei costi (economici, ambientali, paesaggistici) e dei conflitti sociali (legati all'esecuzione dei tagli di livello) della coltivazione dell'abete Douglas.

Il GO chiude evidenziando come l'Abete Douglas possa rappresentare una grande opportunità per la valorizzazione della selvicoltura appenninica, favorendo, con un'attenta gestione dei popolamenti, la creazione di opportunità lavorative non effimere e idealmente proiettate verso il futuro, vista la crescente domanda per il legname di qualità e gli obiettivi di neutralità climatica delle attività antropiche che l'Europa si è prefissa di raggiungere entro il 2050

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Contacts

Project coordinator

  • Massoni Paolo Pompeo

    Project coordinator

Project partners

  • Benesperi Francesco

    Project partner

  • Bresciani Alfredo

    Project partner

  • Brunetti Michele

    Project partner

  • Ducci Fulvio

    Project partner

  • Ferri Fabio

    Project partner

  • Maccelli Luca

    Project partner

  • Miozzo Marcello

    Project partner

  • Mori Paolo

    Project partner

  • Piccarolo Pietro

    Project partner

  • Romualdi Marco

    Project partner

  • Ronconi Maria

    Project partner

  • Santini Lamberto

    Project partner

  • Tani Andrea

    Project partner

  • Ten.Col. Perilli Elena

    Project partner