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As part of the annual public campaign of the State Forestry Resources Agency of Ukraine, “The Future of the Forest in Your Hands,” which this year is held under the general slogan “Forests and Education,” on March 21, 2019, specialists from the Kharkiv Forest Protection Service conducted a lesson on forest knowledge and its inhabitants…

It is crucial to restore forests in the steppe zone, including the plantations of Luhansk region. The Stanychno-Luhanske experimental forestry enterprise is well aware of the abiotic factors that negatively impact young pine trees. Heat, strong winds, and insufficient rainfall—these are all challenges that pines must overcome to survive, take root, and grow for the…

Specialists of the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst” regularly create thematic collections of forest pests and diseases at the request of forest enterprises and interested parties. These collections serve as visual aids in forest protection corners. In the past year alone, approximately 40 such collections were produced. As the saying goes, “It is better…

Using modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for forest monitoring is common in European Union countries. In Ukraine, forestry research institutions are just beginning to explore this technology. In July-August 2018, test flights of a PD1900 UAV were conducted over the experimental forestry of the “SF UkrNDILGA” enterprise. Aerial photography and video recording were performed from…

We have completed the assessment of the sanitary condition of forest stands in the regional departments within our forest protection company’s area of operation and have forecasted the forest pathology situation for pest outbreaks and diseases in 2019. Currently, the forest pathology situation in the forests of the Kharkiv Regional Forestry and Hunting Administration has…

Almost a decade has passed since the last significant leaf damage was recorded in the plantations of the Babai Forestry, part of the Zhovtneve Forest Enterprise of the Kharkiv Regional Forestry and Hunting Management. However, forestry officials responsible for forest protection, including the head of the forest protection department, V.V. Zubko, and leading engineer L.V.…

The New Year and Christmas holidays have come to an end. The Department of Supervision and Forecasting continues the laboratory analysis of the overwintering stock of cocoons of the common pine sawfly (Diprion pini L.) after cold stratification under conditions as close to natural as possible. As the pest gradually accumulates effective temperatures, our forest…

Someone famous once said, “Learning is light, and ignorance is darkness.” On December 23, the head of the Supervision and Forecasting Department of DSLP “Kharkivlisozakhyst,” T.V. Kucheriavenko, conducted a methodological seminar for the forest protection team of the “Krasnograd Forestry Enterprise.” The event was initiated by the forester of the Natalinske Forestry, V.V. Zibarov, and…

Future forests begin their journey from tiny seeds, usually sown in nurseries. Seedlings and young trees are susceptible to many diseases that foresters cannot visually detect. That is why forestry workers turn to specialists from the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst.” The experts of the Biological Laboratory of Forest Protection and the Forest Phytopathology…

Sometimes, we receive questions regarding the scope of work during the autumn-winter period. In this regard, we provide some information on the laboratory analysis of forest pathological samples. The forest protection service collects pine needles according to established methodologies in forest protection practice. The sent forest pathological material is carefully examined by forest pathologists in…