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FOREST RESOURCES
Zasoby leśne, fot. Darek Czernek
Zasoby leśne, fot. Mariusz Grondys
Zasoby leśne, fot. Mariusz Grondys
Zasoby leśne, fot. Mariusz Grondys
Poland is among the European countries with the largest forest area. Its forest cover index, that is the percentage of the area covered by forests in the country's total land area, is 29.7%. The average standing volume of forests in Poland is 206 square metres per hectare, almost twice higher than the average for the whole Europe.
In the Sulechów Forest District the average standing volume is 170 metres per hectare and the average age of a forest stand is 50 years.
The forest district is located on the area of 25,355.8822 hectares.
Main forest communities:
- pine forests
- mixed forests
- Atlantic acidophilus forests (Central European acidophilus oak wood, the so called ‘sour oak' – created primarily by common oak)
- oak-hornbeam forests
- beech forests
- alder marshy forests
- alluvial forests
