Od 80 lat opowiadamy Wam Wielkopolskę. Wielka wichura zniszczyła lasy wokół Gniezna. „To był cios, szok i dramat”

Głos Wielkopolski

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00:00I got a phone call at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning from our forester.

00:11It sounded very, very strange.

00:15First of all, the forester said,

00:18Boss, there is no forest.

00:21He repeated it several times and put me on the phone.

00:24It was Saturday morning, a long weekend.

00:27The information about the storm that came to our area.

00:31I got dressed, got in the car and went to work.

00:35What did you notice in the forest?

00:37Passing through the forest complexes of the neighboring countryside,

00:42where I live, I thought that it would not look so bad.

00:46Only when I arrived in the vicinity of Żejnowa

00:49and saw our forest here under the nest,

00:52I realized what it looks like.

00:54I was very scared, my skin was a little wrinkled.

00:57I did not know how far it would go.

01:00Only the workers who came here.

01:03In the morning we gathered in front of me

01:05near the forestry building.

01:07We started to turn on the phones,

01:09communication with the foresters.

01:11We tried to contact each other to find out what the damage was.

01:15We pulled out the maps, took the car

01:18and drove around our area.

01:20Only then did the whole picture of the destruction appear.

01:24We applied it to the maps,

01:26more or less, what is the range, what is the range.

01:29We multiplied it by hectares,

01:31which are destroyed in our management.

01:34A terrible number came out,

01:36then about 800,000.

01:38Unfortunately, it is all 800,000 cubic meters of wood,

01:42which was destroyed,

01:44i.e. on an area of more than 4,000 hectares.

01:48Most of them were losses of 100%,

01:51that is, they were about to be removed.

01:54It's hard to imagine something like that,

01:57I just want to face it.

02:00Shock, disbelief, what emotions accompanied you?

02:04I think that shock, disbelief,

02:07there was no time for some strong...

02:13thinking about it all,

02:16suddenly a number of problems arose,

02:19which had to be solved.

02:21At the moment, we had to make decisions

02:24related, firstly, to the security of these areas,

02:27secondly, with respect for the damage,

02:30thirdly, with the availability of the area

02:33and with the organization of all this, how to proceed,

02:36because here our area was haunted.

02:39There were bigger storms, storms,

02:41we had some losses every year,

02:43in 2007 we had 40,000 cubic meters of damaged,

02:46recovered after the storms,

02:49so we were already dealing with some losses

02:52caused by atmospheric spaces,

02:55we had to remove 40 hectares

02:58for the construction of the S5 road,

03:01so we increased the tasks,

03:04and we faced it once,

03:06but we haven't faced something like that yet,

03:09and I hope that we won't have to face such a task

03:12in the near future.

03:14How many hectares of forest did you cut?

03:17In 100%, it turned out,

03:19when we summed it up,

03:21we have in 100% 2250 hectares.

03:24I will only add that every year

03:27the Forestry Department cuts

03:30to its surface, let's say,

03:33within 18,000 hectares,

03:36we cut 100 hectares in 100%

03:402250 hectares, which we cut,

03:43and another 2,000 hectares,

03:46where we had to clean up the forest,

03:49where there were individual or group damages.

03:52How long did it take to clean up the area?

03:55The very first task we faced

03:58was, above all, to make the forest available,

04:01in addition to the security,

04:03which was done immediately on the first day,

04:05that is, the warning boards,

04:07so that nothing happened to anyone,

04:09because it was all overhanging,

04:11very dangerous.

04:13The second step we took

04:15was to make the trees available,

04:17that is, we had to organize a group of workers,

04:19a few people each, a tractor,

04:21to cut all the forest roads

04:23that we needed,

04:25which allowed us to move around this forest,

04:27and access to the place of future work,

04:29and access to the forests as well,

04:31because, of course, the forests are

04:33purely located in the forest,

04:35it was impossible to get there.

04:37In addition, we had to prepare

04:39plans of work for our employees at the same time,

04:43we were hired additionally,

04:45we were hired additionally,

04:47first four employees,

04:49then three more employees,

04:51then we got three or five old men to help,

04:53and we had to organize it all

04:55to get rid of it as soon as possible.

04:58When did the new planting begin?

05:00The first planting,

05:02as far as I remember,

05:04was in the autumn of 2018.

05:07It was the beginning,

05:09such a bold beginning,

05:11where we planted only 12 hectares,

05:13but in the following years

05:15we planted 500-600 hectares

05:17per year on these pruned areas.

05:20The biggest problem here,

05:22on our land,

05:24was caused by the American bush,

05:26which was very expansive,

05:28it is a type of bush

05:30that grew very well in our areas

05:32and very expansively,

05:34due to the lack of competition,

05:36populated these areas

05:38and it made it impossible

05:40to develop our seedlings,

05:42which we wanted to plant.

05:44First we had to cut it all out,

05:46mulch it,

05:48only then we could plow and plant.

05:50When did this planting end?

05:52We finished the planting

05:54only within five years,

05:56in 2023.

05:58At the moment,

06:00we are still in the process

06:02of planting our new forest,

06:04which will last for another 2-3 years,

06:06and then there will be

06:08another care work,

06:10but already in paddocks

06:12or in the remaining free-range.

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