Updates from Arte Sella

September 24, 2024
, 3:27 pm
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September 2024 – Update from the Arte Sella forest

How do you measure how much trees grow? In this short video, we tell you how the seedlings we planted in Val di Sella are doing after 5 years and how we measure their growth.

During the planting of new trees at Arte Sella in September 2024, we checked on the trees we planted in previous years to monitor their growth and health.

In this short video, Jacopo talks about the results achieved in these first five years and how the growth of the seedlings is measured.

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April 2020 – Update from the Arte Sella forest

This year, Val di Sella is a veritable open-air construction site thanks to WOWnature:

– Many companies, such as Risto3, have chosen to support forest owners and managers in recovering felled trees and cleaning up forests damaged by Vaia.

– Companies (ProdecoPharma and Barilla, among others) and citizens have supported the restoration of these forests by participating in reforestation events, promoting forests with greater biodiversity and therefore more resilient.

Luigi Dal Trozzo and Barilla set a virtuous example by choosing to support the restoration of trails and paths that are important for tourism in the valley.

Levico Acque continues to support improvements in forest management for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Due to the current Coronavirus emergency, reforestation work and the public event have been scheduled for the autumn.

August 2019 – Update from the Arte Sella forest

Logging work is in full swing in the valley, allowing the first plants to be installed as early as autumn.

At the end of 2018, several companies began logging work in Val di Sella, mainly in the valley floor and in the most accessible areas. The businesses in the valley reacted promptly and most of the tourist areas in the valley, such as Arte Sella, are once again accessible, although there was a great deal of damage and infrastructure to repair. In the WOWalps areas, which are moderately difficult to access, we have identified the forestry companies that should carry out the logging and cleaning work by this winter; the road will now be repaired so that work can begin in the area.

The main problems throughout the Alps are the insufficient number of forestry companies in proportion to the amount of timber felled by Storm Vaia, the objective difficulties of working in situations where trees have fallen, and the collapse of the timber market (due to oversupply), which has led to large quantities of unsold timber and a decline in its value.

The WOWnature team has contacted a number of nurseries in the area that should be able to supply the species for the planting operation that we will be carrying out in agreement with the relevant forestry technicians, starting this autumn.