1. Information about the EEA Financial Mechanism 2004-2009

The project “Forest Procedures in Fire Degraded Areas of the forest (ES-0024)” is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism 2004-2009, signed between Spain (the Beneficiary State) through the Directorate General for Community Funds of the Ministry of Economy and the Inland Revenue, and the Project Promoter (Environmental Directorate-General of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Environment).
The total cost of the Project  are 4.563.332 euros, being the grant rate 43,82%.

The ambition of the EEA Grants is to contribute to a more equal Europe. The three donor states, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will make available €672 million of project funding over five years to reduce social and economic disparities in Europe. Beneficiaries are organisations, NGOs, municipalities and businesses across Central and Southern Europe. Norway contributes with around 97% of the funding.

2. Project Description:

The overall aims of this project are the hydrological and forestry restoration of 1385 ha. of an area burned by a wildfire happened in the municipality terms of Pinofranqueado, Nuñormoral, Caminomorisco, and Casares de las Hurdes in 2003, the improvement and conservation of roads, the construction of forest fires infrastructure for forest fires prevention and suppression, and the creation of recreational areas.

The plant cover regeneration process consists in the site preparation (pre planting silvicultural practices), plantation with pines and oaks species, and pos reforestation practices (bush clearing around the seedling, dead plants replacement, and grass vegetation tillage), in order to accelerate the recovery of the burned area and the regeneration of species-rich forest ecosystem.
In this manner, deriving goals from the forest restoration and the future canopy cover creation are:   
 

On the other hand some auxiliary technical infrastructure works accompanies this restoration, allowing the proper management and defence of the woodlands and forest areas:

3. Forest Restoration Phases

FOREST RESTORATION PHASE	GOAL	Implementation way
Preplanting ground treatment	To Create favourable conditions for the plant establishment, improving soil moisture conditions and water infiltration	Mechanical brushing and Forest soil tillage
Planting	To accelerate the plant cover regeneration process	Manual planting
Dead plants replacement	Dead plants substitution in order to maintain the plants stocking .	Manual replacement
Non-crop vegetation control.	To improve the seedlings survival and its successful establishment	Tractor with disc harrows and manual tillage by a hoe cutting

4. Web links about the EEA Financial Mechanism 2004-2009

www.eeagrants.org
http://www.dgfc.sgpg.meh.es/indexPrevio.jsp

5. Photos

Ground preparation:
Crawler tractor tilling the ground in Nuñomoral woodlands
 
Ground treatment in Nuñomoral woodlands

Caminomorisco woodlands after ground treatment

Walking excavator ground treatment

Ground treatment in Pinofranqueado woodlands

Plantation:
Cork oak

Holm oak

Maritime pine

Pyrenean oak

Scots pine

Trabajos de infraestructuras:
Water pond in Pinofranqueado

Water pond in Nuñomoral

Maintenance and improvement of existing forest roads

Firebreak

Recreational areas



6. Maps 






7. Videos





 
 
8. Publicity measures

Poster

  Billboards

Conferences happened on November 10, 17 2009 in Plasencia and Cáceres about the ES-0024 project “ES0024 Forest procedures in fire degraded areas of the forest”.

Project presentation and explanation of the project activities for the students of the course  “Forestry worker” held in Nuñomoral in March 2010

ES0024 project dissemination in the schools (October 2010)

Participatory planting in burned areas carried out by students (October 2010)

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