2007

YOUNG PEOPLE TO PLANT FOREST TOGETHER WITH MINISTERS, GERMAN AMBASSADOR AND SPORTSMEN DURING “ZAĻAIS VILNIS”

LATVIA HAS LAUNCHED A NEW EXPORT PRODUCT

On April 13, Kalsnava Plantation has sold the first 17,000 hybrid aspen plants to Lithuania.  

European state forest managers are active in EU renewable energy discussions and see challenges with regards to wood mobilization and collaboration with private forest owners.

Brussels, 21st of March 2007. Members of the European State Forest Association met in the brand new European Forestry House for their second general assembly. On the agenda were organizational...

Commissioner Fischer Boel inaugurates the European Forestry House

Brussels, 20th of March, 2007:  In a festive atmosphere the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel ceremonially opened the newly established European...

Hurricane Kyrill: effects on Europe’s forests

Brussels, 30 January 2007             Resulting wood quantities below 2007 timber harvest target  

DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE STORM IN EUROPEAN FORESTS

The storms that raged in Europe in early January caused significant losses not only in Latvian forests but also in other countries’ ones. The European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR) has...

FOREST REFERENCE BOOKS ARE PRESENTED TO THE TEACHERS

Latvijas Valsts Meži in cooperation with Forest Development Fund had presented the guide called “Learn the Forest” to Latvian schools which will help the elementary school teachers who wish to...

JANUARY FLOWERS IN KALSNAVA

This year has begun unusually. For two whole months warm weather has been holding its position and it has been raining all the time which is not typical for winter. Therefore flowering trees and...

INFORMATION REGARDING DAMAGE IN LATVIAN WOODS CAUSED BY THE STORM ON JANUARY 14th – 15th

The Latvijas Valsts Meži joint-stock company has summarised the provisional information on the damage caused by the last storm. According to current data about 200 000 m3 of wood might have been...

FOREST FRIENDS

Today Zaiga Gaile, Ilze Aizsilniece and Imants Ziedonis were awarded with the title “Forest friends”.

A CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ON ILLEGAL WOOD-CUTTING IN THE STATE FOREST WAS INSTITUTED