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PETROZAVOSK, February 11. /Correspondent of SPB-TASS Sergey Kulikayev/. Development of the principal forestry document of the republic - Forest Plan - is to be completed by May 31, 2008. The SPB-TASS correspondent was told so by Minister of Forestry of the Karelia Vladimir Yuriev.
According to the Minister, by March 31 development of forestry regulations will be complete. "Last year in the republic there has been developed 13 norms and regulations necessary to introduce the Forestry Code," - the Minister noted. "Laws of the republic have been passed on the order and regulations of harvesting of wood by citizens for their own needs, on the order of procurement of food forestry products by citizens and gathering herbs for their own needs, and also the law on the order of procurement of non-wood forestry products by citizens for their own needs," - head of timber industry of Karelia said.
Periodic yield in Karelia in 2007 has made 8,8 million cubic meters and its development in recent years was stabilized at the level of 62-64%. Rent of timberland resources for harvesting of wood still remains the basic way of forest exploitation in the republic. In the republic now there has been concluded 154 permanent rent contracts with 62 contractors. The share of competitive rent in the total volume of leased timberland makes 94%.
In 2007 in Karelia there has been logged 6,9 million cubic meters of wood, including 5,6 million cubic meters - by tenants of principal utilization. Actual removal of wood has made 6,6 million cubic meters.
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