two years Ago a devastating forest fire, took the steep slope of the Grasecks. After two vegetation periods, the damage to nature can now be more accurately determined.
Kochel am see– Two hikers from Munich were ascended on new year’s eve 2016 at the Graseck to watch the fireworks in the loisachtal valley. As they built a camp fire, got the flames on the straw dry surface out of control. To delete the attempt, crashed one of the two and was badly hurt. The fire spread quickly. 3 a.m., district administrator Josef niedermaier called in the event of a disaster. Almost three days has been deleted from helicopters. The two men were later convicted of negligent arson – 9000 or 6750 Euro fine. Your liability insurance came up for the costs in the amount of approximately half a Million euros.
the insurance has turned now, the Tölzer forestry enterprise in the Bavarian state forests. Two vegetation periods wanted to wait for the conductor Rudolf Plochmann up to the final damage assessment. “At the beginning, it looked pretty desolate up there,” says the forestry operation chief. A large part of the up to 300 year-old pine trees had colored the needles red. “It was Betpas the heat,” says Plochmann. However, many of the trees recovered from shoots in the first year, albeit quite late. “It has been shown that, although the needles were through, the heat died, the living layer of the trees, the Cambium, but not destroyed,” explains Plochmann. Pines had, fortunately, a thick bark that protected the tree in front of the fire.
This is a “positive development”
The first report had already been in the early summer created. It went from several 100 000 Euro damage. Since the Entire developed but positive, such as Plochmann noted in a Begang, “we said, we’ll wait for a second summer. And indeed, it is now so that the damage is significantly lower than two years ago, feared“. The report had been adjusted. “It’s still a six-digit sum, but rather in the low range.” This was “a positive development”, the forestry expert.
After the exercise of the riser system to the Graseck to be taken in the coming year, the replacement plantings in the attack. This is not easy. “The terrain is very steep. In some areas you will need to rope up. But it is manageable,“ says Plochmann. In the case of the new planting will be especially on pines. They are well suited to the difficult site conditions. The steep South-facing slope, on a thin humus layer with very low water storage qualities.
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