Biomass as an opportunity for the management of private forests in

Biomass as an opportunity for the management of private forests in

EFIMED Week, 7 November 2014 |Kavala, Greece
Biomass as an opportunity for the
management of private forests in
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Nicolas JOLY, project manager at the Regional
Center of Private Ownership PACA
Regional Center of Private Ownership of ProvenceAlpes-Côte d’Azur
The regional center is a local delegation of the National Center of
Private Ownership
Its core mission is to orient and improve the forest management
of the private forests. To reach this objective, our main actions are:
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To develop the groupment of forest stands and forest owners,
on all its forms, technical and economical.
Promote a sustainable management of the forest and all its
resources.
Approve the Forest Management Plans.
Contribute to the sustainable development of rural areas, in
particular through the promotion of all uses of the forests: wood,
energy, NWFP, biodiversity….
Forestry Context
70%  private
20%  municipalities
10%  State
Rhône-Alpes
Aquitaine
1 745 000 ha
PACA
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1 837 000 ha
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1 524 000 ha
Forestry Context
We still are a very Mediterranean forest : 3rd region in forest surface, but
only 5% of the national resource…
South Area :
Pinus
halepensis
Alpine area:
Pinus
silvestris,
European larch
Larix decidua
50%
Softwood
Quercus
pubescens
or
Quercus ilex
50% de
madera
dura
20%
Harvest of the
anual growth
Growing stock: 114 million of cubic meters
Anual groth: 3,6 M m³/year
Harvest: 750 000 m³/year
Softwood
data for the PACA Region :
Contexto de la madera
energetica
3000000.00
Madera blanda: un contexto de mobilizacion…
2500000.00
La madera dura de monte bajo esta principalmente usada como medio
de calefacción. Actualmente, se estiman a 151 000 m3 de madera dura
2000000.00
de monte bajo utilizada como madera energética.
No obstante,
One million
of m³está
potentially
esta utilizada en autoconsumo, o con un mercado difícilmente
penetrable.
available
1500000.00
1000000.00
500000.00
0.00
Produccion anual (m3/año)
Anual growth (m3/year)
Produccion anual que podria servir
Anual
growth that
para la industria (m3/año)
could be use for
industry (m3/year)
Volumen cosechado (m3/año)
Actually harvested
volume (m3)
Volumen no cosechado (m3/año)
Available volume (m3)
One historical consumer of wood : pulp mill…
Two new projects of biomass plants in the Region
E-ON
INOVA
150 MW
20 MW
Estimated needs :
180 000 tons
The biggest biomass plant
in France
Resource supplying :
20 km around the plant.
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Resource supplying :
400 km around the plant.
Estimated
needs (only
forest biomass) :
250 000 tons in 2015
400 000 tons in 2025
Marseille
Toulon
No Combined Heat
and Power !
Why you need to deal with private forest:
70% of the surface
61% of the growing stock
220.000 private forest
owners
Still with low management
So, we have a big pressure to mobilize
more wood and the majority of the
volume to be mobilized is in private
forests.
The first idea
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How to put more forest under
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The forest is worth something.
management?
How to maximize the income?
Necessity of grouping
The biomass could be valorized in the
local boiler
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Effective relay of our message
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Improve the management of the
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Mix private/public intervention?
Local anchorage, easy contact
and public authority
forest on their territory
But not everything was so simple…
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Incomprehension of woodcuts
Patrimonial management of the
wood seen has something “that
doesn’t need anything to grow”
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Fear of forest fire
Low incomes from the forest
Lot of small forest stands that cannot
be managed alone
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“Not our business”
A topic badly or not know
One theme: Forest Fire
First action: Contact and animation of forest owners through
mayors
Contact of municiplaities interested in
wood biomass
Design of an questionnary with the
mayor to evaluate the wishes/projects
of the private forest owners in the area.
Contact of private forest owners
through the questionnary, set-up of
several meeting of restitution of the
results /animation
Grouping of private forest owners for a
common forestry action
Utilization of the field plots as dissemination
tools
Demostration actions
Full tree harvesting
Valorization of the products of
Quercus suber
Conrete example of grouping
activities of private forest owners
Running of a forest biomass
platform
Planes de abastecimiento
Supply tool
Design of a tool that gives,
year by year and for each
municipality, the quantity of
biomass available in the
forest under management
plan. This tool is a tool for
decision making, so the
mayor can evaluate the
local biomass available for
their boiler.
Results
Case study of full tree
harvesting system in
very young stands of
pinus halepensis.
70
ha
put
under
management
in
4
municipalities.
About 20 private forest
owners
that
have
change their point of
view on their forest.
More than 750 private
forest owners and mayors
have been informed of our
activities.
Rising of the voice of the
private forest in the reflexion
on woody biomass for
energy.
Thank you for your attention
Nicolas JOLY
[email protected]
www.ofme.org/crpf
http://www.proforbiomed.eu/
http://www.medland2020.eu/
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