october 2009

Within the framework of the international colloquium organized by the Institute of resources regions of Quebec under the subject "These countries where the forest industry goes well", Mister Real Desbiens, forest engineer, stated his experience in Russia, where he took part in the construction of a new sawmill. The speaker discovered in this vast country, poor but hardly educated people and within whom support of the community had lived a strong value.

The forested possibility in Russia reaches the 635 million cubic meters of wood, what corresponds in a little more of 14 times that of Quebec. At present, the foresters harvest 119 million cubic meters annually and the Russian government wishes to reach the 200 million cubic meters before next ten years.

The forested Russian regime speechless harvest of forests which are not hundred years old. Furthermore, this regime obliges the foresters to meet the expenses for puting back the harvested sites in production. The manufacturers have to make sure to respect demands resulting from local communities, in the economic planning and the follow-up of the forest operations.

The boreal forest contains some elements describing countries where it is omnipresent, which elements have an incidence on the organization of the work in forest. At first, the duration of day and the wintry conditions impose some operational constraints which limit the working time in forest to the certain moments of the year. On the North American continent, the boreal forest passes between the 50th and the 60th parallel while in Europe, it concentrates rather between the 60th and the 70th parallel. In Russia, it distributes more widely, of the 50th in the 70th parallel. In comparative, the duration of the shortest day of the year is of 6:35 am at the level of the 55th parallel while it belongs only 2:51 am to that of the 65th parallel.

Russia has natural resources in the measure of its vast territory. The country occupies the first position as producer of petroleum and some ores. But the estrangement of markets returns certain resources less profitable to exploit. In it adds the estrangement of the big industrial power plants, in the case of the wood among others, as well as the absence of an appropriate road network.

The country counted on the exports towards Scandinavia to generate foreign currencies. Now, this practice became less interesting because of the tariff rights. The State priorise maintaining actions aiming at the transformation of the wood inside its borders. It is of custom maintaining in Russia to foresee a factory of second and the third transformation in accompanying of a sawmill. The Russian government always maintains a concern to generate foreign currencies. However, the envisaged solution passes henceforth by the membership in the standard FSC, such as recommends Greenpeace.

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