RESUME

Experience in purchasing forest stands

Libor Strakoš

The article deals with experience of an experienced person interested in purchase of forest properties (a forest stand including the parcel). The process leading to possible purchase of a forest property itself can be divided into several phases as viewed from the point of a potential investor. The first phase represents a search for such a property and retrieving basic information on the stand or a complex of stands respectively. The next phase represents getting detailed data for a reliable price identification (Forest Management Plan, ownership identification, trade and technological conditions, including thoroughgoing on-site inspection, e.t.c.). In the last phase, the contract is concluded and fulfilled. A specific position in the current market with forest stands is occupied by smaller properties sized less than fifty hectares. The whole described process often is very fast, however sometimes rather entails a fair risk to the owner the contract will not be fulfilled. This part of the market is rather dim, as these purchases do not aim at development of a long-term management but at mere ambition to get a fast profit, often on the brink of law.

Market and official prices of forest in the CR

Radek Zádrapa

In the very beginning the author writes the Czech official prices of forest exceed the market ones in average by tens or even hundreds of per cents. Such fact can be apprehended unjust in inheriting, giving, or selling a forest (the official price represents the base for tax calculation). Long-lasting and considerably noticeable differences between the official and market forest prices discriminate the forest ownership against real properties, in which official and market prices converge. By the author’s esteem several thousands of small-sized forest properties or their ideal parts have been sold annually in last 6-7 years. The last legal regulation (the directive of the Ministry of Finance) even deepens the conflict of the official and market forest price in the CR, although this disproportion is not objectively justifiable. The official price of a forest stems from an official’s idea of the social forest value accepted superior to the private forest ownership.

Price - basis of the market

Miroslav Kubů

The Czech law on property assessment does not allow to evaluate forest as an integral unit of a forest property and a forest stand by a classical yield method but the cost method is applied. The author concludes the official prices evoke in many forest owners wrong assumptions about the value of their property. Not every owner understands a person interested in buying the forest and bidding a price lower by order than the official one is not a cheat but a really reasoning investor. The author also says the current valid method of identification of a forest stand official price not only is improper but also methodologically incorrect as it includes costs of a forest stand establishment into the official price. Buying a mature stand in the CR for an official price can be considered only by the one who does not count for reforestation and establishment duty.

Honey fungus still topical

Vlastislav Jančařík, Libor Jankovský

There are 5 ringed honey fungi species and 2 ringless ones identified in Europe. All species have been identified also within the territory of the Czech Republic. Armillaria ostoyae represents the most important species from the economic aspect. Armillaria gallica is common in lower locations and dominates in alluvial forests. A. mellea is a thermophilic species, it parasites on deciduous and fruit tree species in the warmest regions of the CR. A. borealis has been overlooked so far. Other honey fungi species A. cepistipes, A. tabescens and A. ectypa are not significant from the aspect of forestry. A. ectypa ranks among the especially protected fungi species. The most threatened by honey fungus (A. ostoyae) are the spruce stands on fertile localities in lower and middle altitudes. The expected yield in these localities is high, however an increased risk of production loss has to be accepted which, on the other hand, can be minimised by a shortened rotation period. Honey fungus, as a biotic site factor, has to be count for. Under proper site conditions, within their ecological optimum, most tree species are tolerant to honey fungus. The major role of honey fungus is to decompose the wood remaining in the soil. Therefore honey fungi take their important part in nutrient cycling.