Methodical provision application of systematic silvicultural activities in the forests of water protection zones

Forests located in water protection zones are the most important category of protective forests for which the Forest Code of the Russian Federation establishes a very (hard) strict legal regime what has as a positive so and a negative value and significantly affects the management of these forests and their condition. Based on the analysis and synthesis of materials of literary sources of information, as well as on the results of field studies, are explaining the establishment of target characteristics of plantations effectively performing complex water protection functions, including water regulating, sanitary water treatment, pollution prevention, contamination, siltation of water bodies, depletion of their waters, as well as the conservation of habitats of objects of the animal and plant world. As a result of comparing the characteristics of existing forest plantations with the target, provided by natural soil and forest conditions, differences from the target, is given assessment of their condition and, accordingly, the effectiveness of the activities carried out in the current legislative, regulatory and legal conditions...