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    1. Mediterranean forests require careful management to avoid water competitors and prevent fires in order to grow and produce valuable products like cork, pine cones, gum resin, firewood, and biomass. 2. Other potential forest products include mushrooms, hunting, agrotourism, ornamental plants, livestock, and fruits, but these require mature tree stands with continuous management over generations. 3. Family forest management is key to the long-term sustainability of Mediterranean forests, but it requires support through policies that incentivize renewable energy, fire prevention, and financial tools that accommodate the long time horizons of forestry.

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    1. Mediterranean forests require careful management to avoid water competitors and prevent fires in order to grow and produce valuable products like cork, pine cones, gum resin, firewood, and biomass. 2. Other potential forest products include mushrooms, hunting, agrotourism, ornamental plants, livestock, and fruits, but these require mature tree stands with continuous management over generations. 3. Family forest management is key to the long-term sustainability of Mediterranean forests, but it requires support through policies that incentivize renewable energy, fire prevention, and financial tools that accommodate the long time horizons of forestry.

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    1. Mediterranean forests require careful management to avoid water competitors and prevent fires in order to grow and produce valuable products like cork, pine cones, gum resin, firewood, and biomass. 2. Other potential forest products include mushrooms, hunting, agrotourism, ornamental plants, livestock, and fruits, but these require mature tree stands with continuous management over generations. 3. Family forest management is key to the long-term sustainability of Mediterranean forests, but it requires support through policies that incentivize renewable energy, fire prevention, and financial tools that accommodate the long time horizons of forestry.

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    1. Mediterranean forests require careful management to avoid water competitors and prevent fires in order to grow and produce valuable products like cork, pine cones, gum resin, firewood, and biomass. 2. Other potential forest products include mushrooms, hunting, agrotourism, ornamental plants, livestock, and fruits, but these require mature tree stands with continuous management over generations. 3. Family forest management is key to the long-term sustainability of Mediterranean forests, but it requires support through policies that incentivize renewable energy, fire prevention, and financial tools that accommodate the long time horizons of forestry.

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    Multifunctional Mediterranean

    Forests
    Juan Botey Serra
    Mediterranean Forest Owner
    CFC / COSE / CEPF / IFFA

    Brussels, 23 May 2006 ELO / Comission UE


    When the limiting factor of forest
    growth is the water instead of the
    light (Mediterranean condition)
    • Management of forests is needed to avoid water
    competitors at soil level with clearages and
    extraction of bushes. If not fire manages it.
    • Strategies to save the cost:
    – Livestock on the forest
    – Use biomass for energy purposes
    – Aids for prevention of forest fires
    Which are our forest products ?
    • Cork. (EU is first world producer)
    – Trees of 40 to 250 years, harvested each 9 to 14 years.
    • Pine Cones (EU is first world producer)
    – Trees of 25 to 150 years, harvested each year
    • Gum Resin
    – Trees of 30 to 80 years, harvested each year.
    • Fire wood
    – Trees and bushes of 10 to 100 years
    • Biomass
    – Trees and bushes harvested each 6 years if not livestock
    • Wood
    – Trees of 40 to 60 years
    Which could be other products ?
    • Mushrooms
    • Hunt
    • Agrotourism
    • Ornamental green
    • Livestock (pigs, cows, ...)
    • Other forest fruits (berries, chestnuts,...)
    Which are the main needs for
    these productions?
    • Adult trees proportionated to water income
    on the soil level.
    • Absence of forest fires to arrive adult trees
    • Continuous management on the cycle of the
    trees.
    • Innovation of harvesting systems
    How to rich it ?
    • Avoiding forest fires
    • Assuring light benefits to energy applications.
    Linking it with Climate Change programs and
    renewal energy policies.
    • Family forestry management has the tool to assure
    the management for the whole tree cycle. The
    trans-generations tool.
    • Banks don’t like this kind of long term tools, and
    States change each five years his managers.
    Plantación
    Plantacióndede
    pinos:
    pinos: 1, 10yy
    1, 10
    33
    33años
    años
    después
    después
    The paper of Family Forestry in
    Europe

    • More than 20M people manages near the 60%


    of forests
    • The actual stage of forests and his biodiversity
    comes from the management of generations of
    owners
    • Not a lonely bank likes forestry investments
    • If the profitability of forests disappears for the
    owner, management finishes, and forest fires
    take his management role in Mediterranean
    region.
    Aid to our European ecosystems

    Demand cork stoppers on wine bottles


    Our grandchildren will be happy

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