But it is good neither for foresters nor for ecologists. It is crisis for the former and spoil of the resources for the latter. This species are oak, beech, ash, wild pear and sweet chestnut that grow only on North Caucasus. The felling plan has changed immediately. In reality situation could be worse.
External harvesters works only on select cutting.
This withdrawal of best trees damages incorrigible the forest ecosystems - wrote Director General of Apsheronsklesprom public company to the Krasnodarskij Kraj Legislative Assembly two years before. The set system of dealers is another point showing that the problem is really acute. The proximity of borders and ports to valuable wood forests allows bulk timber exportation by Turkish trucks directly from the forest facilitates criminal structures activity, stealage, cuttings without license . It is only one argument for prohibition of round wood export from a set of documents sent to the Krasnodarskij Kraj Legislative Assembly two years ago. The Head of Russian Federal Forestry Service Shubin V. declared the official attitude towards the problem.