Sevastopol's forests will be made thicker

Large-scale work on the addition of forest crops is underway in Sevastopol. Forests will regain their density where some of the previously planted trees have not taken root or weakened, the press service of the regional government reports.

Planting is taking place in three district forestry districts — Sevastopol, Mekenzievsky and Ternovsky. Experts have already planted 20,000 young trees on 20 hectares. They want to increase the total volume of plantings to 30 thousand plants by the end of the season.

As noted by IA SevastopolMedia, the planting density for conifers should be 6 thousand trees per hectare. Exactly how many seedlings need to be added is determined annually at the autumn inventory.

It is planned to add more than 22 hectares in 2026. Most of the plan for November was closed in October due to the weather. Heavy rains moistened the soil well, and there were warm days in between. This contributed to the excellent survival of the seedlings.

One of these sites is located in the Sevastopol forestry, where more than 1 ha of pine trees were previously planted. Now there are about 6 thousand trees growing there, in October 1.5 thousand young pines, cypresses and thuja trees were added to them.

At the same time, the Mekenzievsky forestry department will create forest crops from scratch. Trees will be planted on an area of 1.1 hectares in an area where they have not grown before.

Earlier, Izvestia wrote that Russian botanists are creating a map of the genetic diversity of rare relict plants. It will allow to assess the state of their populations, identify the genotypes that are most in need of protection, and will also become the basis for artificial breeding programs.