Artificial forest restoration
Artificial afforestation refers to activities related to the cultivation of forest plantations, including sowing, planting seedlings and saplings of main forest tree species, agricultural care for forest plantations (soil loosening, destruction or prevention of the appearance of unwanted vegetation, and other measures aimed at improving the survival rate of seedlings and saplings of main forest tree species and improving their growth conditions), as well as other activities provided by afforestation rules until the time when the land on which artificial afforestation is carried out is classified as land with forests1.
Forest Code of the Russian Federation, as amended on 2021-09-01, Article 62, paragraph 3 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 2006. No. 50. Item 5278. ↩