Forest Club model projects and sites

Conclusion

The experience of the last years reveals that, unfortunately, it has become a usual practice of forest felling to ignore the existing legislation. For example, in June 2000, at one of the logging sites of the Dalnegorsk district in Primorye region we detected a forest felling operation that was carried out outside of the borders of the permitted logging site. This was conducted in a remote part of an allotment where a few Korean Pines were cut down (although, as the loggers said they were forbidden to cut Korean Pines). In the same area log-ways ran along a stream. There were other violations, but none of the workers saw anything wrong, saying, We've cut down a couple of Korean Pines. So what?! Cutting a few Korean Pines won't do any harm. This phrase says everything about what wood loggers think about breaches of the law. A few is nothing and we may cut down a few trees. This amount depends on a particular person and his or her conscience, if there is any at all.

Unfortunately, the attitude of the supervising agencies toward this issue is the same, not taking into account the cases when fidelity to one's principles becomes something that can be easily bought and sold.