Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 20 ForA)

¹ All main­ten­ance in­ter­ven­tions that con­trib­ute to the con­ser­va­tion or res­tor­a­tion of the sta­bil­ity and the qual­ity of a stand are clas­si­fied as sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures.

² Meas­ures car­ried out as part of young forest main­ten­ance are:

a.³⁵

young growth main­ten­ance, thick­et main­ten­ance and stem thin­ning in or­der to cre­ate res­ist­ant and ad­apt­able stands suit­able to the loc­a­tion;

b.

spe­cif­ic meas­ures to main­tain re­growth in se­lec­tion forests, in oth­er multi-layered forests, in cop­pices with stand­ards and cop­pice forests as well as in multi-layered forest mar­gins;

c.

pro­tect­ive meas­ures against dam­age caused by game;

d.

the cre­ation of paths in areas of dif­fi­cult ac­cess.

³ Thin­ning and re­gen­er­a­tion meas­ures are:

a.

slash re­mov­al and the cre­ation of new stands and the ne­ces­sary ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures;

b.

wood har­vest­ing and trans­port.

⁴ Min­im­um main­ten­ance meas­ures for con­serving the pro­tect­ive func­tion of the forest are main­ten­ance in­ter­ven­tions that are re­stric­ted to en­sur­ing the long-term sta­bil­ity of the stand; felled wood is used loc­ally or left on site, as long as it does not pose a risk.