By a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On the Establishment of Territorial Bodies of the State Forestry Committee,” which took effect on January 1 of this year, the Volyn Regional Forestry Administration was established. The head of the newly created administration was appointed Bohdan Kolisnyk, a honored forester of Ukraine, who had previously been the general director of the State Forestry Association “Volynlis,” which is being liquidated.
The main task of the regional forestry administration is to perform the functions entrusted to it by the state for the effective management of forests, primarily in the sphere of protection, safeguarding, use and reproduction of forests, and ensuring conditions for their further development. In essence, a continuation of the already established traditions of Volyn foresters. This was precisely what was discussed at the first meeting of directors of enterprises of the regional forestry administration. In particular, on the basis of the selection and seed center in the village of Harazdzha of the Lutsk district, the Volyn State Forest Seed Center was created. Its employees and the base forest nurseries have been tasked with constantly providing the sector with high-quality planting material. And seedlings and saplings for supplementing forest plantations should also be cultivated from mini-nurseries established in every forest round.
The experience of Volyn residents in growing planting material for reforestation and creating green landscape compositions, by the way, is generally recognized in Ukraine. This was confirmed by the announcement made at the meeting about awarding the director of the Volyn Forest Seed Center, Zinoviy Korytan, the Order “For Merit” of the III degree. The director of the Ratne Forestry and Hunting Enterprise, Yuriy Kharytonenko, was also awarded the medal “For Labor and Valor.” He has headed the enterprise for more than thirty years and also pays great attention to forest restoration.
Valeriy MELNYK, head of the press service of the Volyn Regional Forestry Administration.