Experiences with silvicultural reclamation
on the land devastated by the sand digging

Abstract

Unsuitable technological and biological land reclamation processes in the sand pit near the village Rasovice not far from Tyniste nad Orlici (Eastern Bohemia) result in bad growth and bad development of the planted Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) plantations. The plantations suffer from lack of water and from the disturbances in nitrogen and magnesium nutrition. The reason is excessive drainage of the land, low fertility of the applied reclamation soil and insufficient rooting of plantations. An important role of negative character is played here by deformations of the root of forest plants after the mechanized planting. The fertilization of plants brought short term improvement of the plantations growth. Forestrs are to carry out the reconstruction of the pine plantations and are to change the present technology of land reclamation by the silvicultural measures.

Orig. citation (in Czech):

^{Pictures 1 - 6: Land reclamation processes in the sand pit Lipa II. (near the village Rasovice not far from Tyniste nad Orlici; Eastern Bohemia) (photograph by Frantisek Horak & Vaclav Narovec; archiv in Forest Research Station at Opocno)}