Chilean Forestry Regulations: Afforestation, Reforestation & Native Forest
Chilean Forestry Regulations
1. Article 1 This law seeks to regulate forestry in forest soils and fitness preferably in degraded soils and encourage afforestation, especially by small forest owners and those needed to prevent degradation, protection, and recovery of soils in the country.
2. Costs associated with forestry activities:
- a. Pruning and thinning costs
- b. Professional advice
- c. Acquisition of plants
- d. Work protection
- e. Establishment of plantation
- f. Preparation and fencing of the land
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4. A small forest owner is a small farmer who works and owns one or more rural properties with a combined surface of no more than 12 basic irrigated hectares, according to their area equivalence. True False
5. If possible, since article 16 of DL 701 states that the beneficiary of the subsidies will be the owner, you can transfer them through a public or private document, signed before a notary public. This allows subsidies to be collected and viewed by someone other than the owner, if accompanied by the act stating the transfer, in order to provide security for the lending of bonds for financing the activities to be subsidized.
6. Definitions:
- Afforestation: The action to populate with tree or shrub species land that lacks them, or, if covered by such vegetation, it is not likely to be managed, to form a tree or shrub mass for preservation, protection, or production.
- Reforestation: The action to repopulate with tree and shrub species, by seeding, planting, or natural regeneration management, land that has been covered with forest and has been mined after October 28, 1974.
7. The management plan should consider the implementation of all reforestation work within a period not exceeding:
- a. 1 year
- b. 2 years
- c. 3 years
- d. 4 years
8. Any field that has enjoyed the benefits of afforestation bonus during the term of the former decree 701 of 1974, can log back in to profit in this context. True False
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10. In Chile, there are around 4 million hectares that could be recovered from erosion through forest plantations with fast-growing species. False True
11. The State of Chile, in the period of 25 years counted from January 1, 1996, subsidized once for each surface, a percentage of net costs incurred by the owner of the activities described in Article 15 of Law 701. True False
12. Article 1 This law aims at the protection, recovery, and enhancement of native forests in order to ensure forest sustainability and environmental policy.
13. Definitions:
- Native forest: Consisting naturally of native species from natural generation, natural regeneration, or plantations under the same canopy species in the original range, which may have an unintended presence of alien species distributed at random.
- Biodiversity: Refers to preserving native forests that provide habitat for legally protected plant species or classified into categories of endangered, vulnerable, rare, insufficiently known, or out of danger, or that corresponds to a unique or representative of the natural biodiversity of the country, whose handling is only in order to safeguard diversity (species).
- Conservation: Refers to protecting native forests located on slopes equal to or above 45%, fragile soils, or within 200 meters of springs or natural water bodies, for the shelter of such soil and water resources.
14. Native forest multiple use: The one whose land and vegetation do not correspond to the categories of preservation or conservation and protection, and that it mainly to obtain goods and services, timber and
Uses:
- Protection of biodiversity.
- Carbon sequestration
- Scenic Beauty
- Protection of soil, water, regulate cycles.
Subsidies:
15. Management Plan: The tool that meets the requirements set forth in this body of law regulates the use and rational use of renewable natural resources of a particular field, in order to maximize their benefit while ensuring the preservation, conservation, improvement, and enhancement of such resources and their ecosystem.
16. It is native forest preservation category of vulnerable, facing high risk of extinction, for selective cutting.