Recently, the State Forestry Service has been receiving questions from forest owners about the possibility of cutting down dead trees (dry trees). People ask where to apply and what documents or reconciliations are required.
The State Forestry Service informs that it is certainly possible to cut down drylands or windbreaks in your own forest. If you intend to cut them with selective sanitary felling and use the wood for your own purposes, then, according to Clause 20.2 of the Provisions on the Management and Use of Private Forests, it is not even necessary to obtain a permission to cut the forest.
If you intend to sell the wood cut by these fellings, then you must obtain a permit. You must also obtain a permit if you intend to cross the mainland green sanitary cutting. In this case, you need to contact the State Forestry Service for an assessment of the expediency of clear sanitary felling in your forest.
In order to obtain a permit to cut a forest or submit a notification of intent to cut a forest, the forest owner or his authorized person must submit an application electronically using the Environmental Permits Information System (ALIS). Together with the application, you must submit the stock exchange registration documents (signed with the e-signature of the stock exchange registration clerk) and other related documents.
It should be noted that without permission or concerted notice can only be executed:
– youth education crossings,
– selective sanitary cuttings (when only dryers or windbreaks are cut),
– crossings intended to cut boundary lines,
and only when there is no intention to sell the wood.
State Forest Service inf.
