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ŠUMARSKI LIST 11-12/1997 str. 81     <-- 81 -->        PDF

tĐ. Rauš, Ž. Spanjol, B. Španjol: ZNANSTVENOISTRAŽIVAČKI RAD NA NASTAVNO POKUSNOM ŠUM.... Šumarski list br. 11 -12, CXXI (1997), 645-656


SUMMARY: Within its educational and scientific-research activities, the Forestry Faculty
of the Zagreb University manages a part of the Mediterranean forests on the island of Rab.
The management of the forests was taken over from the former Rab Commune Assembly in accordance
with the contract No. 01/1-105/1-75, dated 6 March, 1975. The forests have a special
purpose and a specific character ("forests with a special purpose", Forest Act NN No.
52/90). Their main use is to provide practical education for forestry students, to enable scientific-
research work in terms of vegetative-ecological, biological, and particularly forestry-
economic research connected to natural regeneration of forests in the Croatian part of the
Mediterranean, and to offer optimal tourist-recreation and non-market valorisation of the


forests on Rab. The wood mass obtained by silvicultural activities in the facility is sold as
wood fuel to households on the island.


In the past period, the forests were managed on the basis of annual plans. In order to manage
and develop these forests adequately, a programme was drawn entitled "1986-1995
Forest Management Programme in the Teaching-Experimental Forestry Facility of the
Forestry Faculty, Zagreb University", based on the then valid Regulations.


The forests and forest facilities in the Teaching-experimental facility (NPŠO Rab) are located
on the south-west coast of Rab, in the forested area of Kalifront. The St. Mare Bay is in
the centre of the facility.


The total forested area is 98.80 ha. Of this,


- 90.00 ha are forested areas
- 7.80 ha are bare and unproductive areas (forest roads, paths, and similar)
-1.00 ha is a nursery
The paper was presented at the international symposium "The 100th anniversary of scientific-
research work by the Croatian agricultural and food production systems and forestry
in the Mediterranean", Split, 12-14 October, 1994.
The facility is divided into 8 compartments and 32 sections. The division was made on the
basis of the origin, silvicultural form, age, vegetative diversity, and purpose (Map 1).


At the request of the Forestry Faculty, the Rab Commune Assembly issued a permit 01/1181/
1- 77 on 17 March 1997, granting the clearing of the forests in a 1-ha area for an experimental
nursery. Horticultural and forest seedlings are produced here, and various experiments
in the nursery and seed production are conducted. The nursery is called "The Andrija
PetračićExperimental Nursery, Rab". A pre-fabricatedhouse (until recently used as a nursery
worker´s flat) and a new water tank have been built near the nursery.


Based on the Agreement No. 349-01/97-1848 of 25 March 1997, the Forestry Faculty of
the University in Zagreb, in the capacity of the user, has agreed to take over the "Kalifront"
hunting ground from the Public Enterprise "Croatian Forests", the holder of hunting rights.
The said hunting ground is part of the Teaching-experimental facility in Rab, and will be used
in a scientific-research programme. The hunting ground has an area of 1,351 ha. In cooperation
with the hunting rights holder, the Forestry Faculty undertakes to draw up a revision of
the hunting-management basis.


The contracted parties agree that scientific-research activities by the Forestry Faculty in Zagreb
in the hunting ground are effective from 1 April 1997, i.e., the beginning of the hunting season
1997/98, to the expiration of the hunting-management basis for the "Kalifront" hunting
ground on 31 May 2005, or to the moment at which the holder of the hunting rights stops exerting
his right to hunting in the said ground as stated in Article 15, Item 2 of the Hunting Act.


The Faculty of Forestry of the University in Zagreb shall take over all game stock in the
"Kalifront" hunting ground, all hunting-technical and hunting-management facilities, and all
game feeding areas.


The following game is present in the hunting ground:


Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
European hare (Lepus europaeus)
Greek partridge (Alectoris graeca)
Snipe (Scolopax rusticola)
Stock dove (Columba oenas)
Hog deer (Axis axis)
Research in the "Kalifront" hunting ground is primarily aimed at establishing optimal relations
between the factors of integral forest and game management in the sites of evergreen
oak (Orno-Quercetum ilicis) and their degraded stages. Biological and economic feasibility