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October 22, 2001. The press-conference devoted to the official opening of the Krasnoyarsk Office of the Winrock International took place in Krasnoyarsk in the House of Journalists. Winrock and The Heron Group (USA) are involved in the Component 2 goals implementation.
October 22, 2001. In Krasnoyarsk in the Sikachev Institute of Forest building a seminar took place. It was led by Alexei Erokhin, FOREST Project Grant Program manager (the photo of the seminar you’ll find here). The representatives of 8 Krasnoyarsk organizations participated. These organizations have submitted preliminary proposals for the grants from Components 2 and 3. They were instructed on the rules of the final proposals submission.
October 3, 2001. In VNIIPOMleskhoz building in Krasnoyarsk the meeting took place devouted to the presentation of the Project FOREST Grant Program. 17 specialist represented 12 Krasnoyarsk organizations.
October 1, 2001. The first tour of the FOREST Project Grant Program was announced (more information you’ll find here). Component 2 proposed the grant title on “ Impact of Siberian moth outbreaks on carbon storage and dynamics of carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems of Siberia”. Grant will be given to proposals for activities in Krasnoyarsk Kray and Irkutsk Oblast’. The results of this grant would be a greater understanding of the relationship between Siberian moth damage and carbon losses from taiga forests, stressed or killed by the defoliation. Cost related to this grant will not exceed $25 000.
September 22, 2001. The FOREST Project supported the pathological sampling of the larch forests of the Khabarovsk Kray. These forests were destroyed recently by the Siberian moth outbreak. The team of experts (2 people from the Ministry of Natural Resources staff, 2 – scientists from the Far Eastern Institute for Forest Management and 1 pilot) performed different types of sampling on the territory of 900 000 hectares (the photo of defoliated forests you’ll find here).
September 20, 2001. Field work in the Bol’shaya Murta leskhoses was accomplished. The Component team finished the sampling in the fall of the Siberian moth larvae on the 30 plots. The plots belonged to the 3 habitat types with high, low and moderate probability of the pest foci appearance. The sampling data are in the processing.
September 6, 2001. Results of the project FOREST in Krasnoyarsk krai were presented at the scientific conference and at the exhibition “Innovation potential of the forest industrial complex of Krasnoyarsk krai” (September 5- 6, Lesosibirsk). The component 2 was presented by the report of Yu.N.Baranchikov, Yu.P.Kondakov “Siberian moth – an important factor of ecological security of taiga forests and the present methods of its population control” and by a special poster. The project presentation was awarded with the Diploma of the exhibition “for making technologies in conserving Russian forests” (the Diploma photo you’ll find here).
September 5, 2001. The correspondents of the American Journal “National Geographic” Fen Montain and Lyudmila Mekertycheva worked several days at the Institute of Forest SB RAS. During the two-day field work the sample plots for registering dynamics of forest pest local populations were demonstrated them and the results of the first year of the FOREST project were presented.
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