Forests destroyed; the rains have ruined a portion of the Dolomites. A special plan is needed to replant trees, with public and private funding (video).

Floods and wind gusts of up to 190 kilometers per hour: in the province of Belluno alone, in the heart of the Dolomites, 40 percent of the forests have disappeared. One and a half million square meters of trees have been felled in Trentino.

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DESTROYED WOODS

As bad as an earthquake or worse for homes. This is the result, for the Italian woods, of a long sequence of days with torrential rain, floods, wind gusts of up to 190 kilometers per hour, landslides and mud.

The epicenter of this biblical disaster was the entire area of The Dolomites, which unfortunately, as far as trees are concerned, are now completely damaged. In the province of Belluno alone, one of the key areas of the Dolomite landscapes, 30 thousand hectares of forests, 40 percent of the total, while in the area of Asiago There are just the remains of 300 thousand trees.

(The video shows images of the devastation of the forests due to bad weather at Passo di Costalunga in the Dolomites – Source: Il Dolomiti/Facebook page of the Landesfeuerwehrverband Südtirol)

Same picture, same disaster Vicenza e Treviso, where according to the calculations of the regional administration we have lost the 5 percent ofentire forest heritage of the two provinces of Veneto. In Trentino, where the torrential rains were concentrated in Val di Fiemme and in Val di Fassa, one and a half million square meters of trees have been crushed and destroyed. Little, too little, remains of the wonderful wood of the Panaveggio Park, known as the “violin forest”, as here Stradivari chose the best trees for his instruments.

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 WOODS DESTROYED BY BAD WEATHER

We've reconstructed this national disaster report, with some videos we're showing you, not to provide a cold accounting of the disaster. But to say that, at this point, we can't turn the page and wait, if anything, for a few decades to pass before someone decides to replant some trees. tree.

Faced with a tragedy of this magnitude, which impoverishes the entire country, affecting entire supply chains, from wood to Dolomite tourism (the CAI reports that entire paths no longer exist), a national system effort must be made. Trying, for once, to get the various levels of expertise to collaborate, from Ministry of the Environment, regions, passing by mountain communityhey municipalitiesWith direction that, if possible, is concentrated in the hands of the ministry.

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FUNDS TO REBUILD THE WOODS

Then you need the moneyAnd here, we can't just throw up our hands just because we're talking about trees. Something specific needs to be allocated in the state budget, and more needs to be raised with significant private participation. Federlegno, with all the associations involved in the wood supply chain up to the furniture industry, could send a strong and clear signal of openness to a fundraising effort to quickly rebuild the destroyed forests, at least in part.

Compared to trees, woods and forests, we are specialists in hurting ourselves, even with chaos, as demonstrated by the absurd fact of having 21 regional laws, one different from the other, for the forest protectionOr as demonstrated by a disastrous, destructive use of the land, where we have allowed only one word to prevail: concreting. Forgetting about caring for the trees. Perhaps this disaster will have the merit of bringing another key word back to the center of action for the woods: their maintenance.

Video credits: Youtube/Gerry De Zolt – La Repubblica)

Source images: Corriere della Sera

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