Szotyori-Nagy Ágnes (szerk.): A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 2013-2015 (Budapest, 2015)

Tanulmányok - Oroszi Sándor: "M. kir. Erdőhivatal Apatinban"

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Német(Új) Palánka

Apatin

Doroszló

Bezdán

1912.

Trauer Gyula

Szeleczky János

Sándor Elek

Szalóky Sándor

1913.

Trauer Gyula

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

Illés László

1914.

Majerszky István

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

nincs betöltve

1915.

Majerszky István

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

Bárány Károly

1916.

Majerszky István

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

Bárány Károly

1917.

Majerszky István

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

Bárány Károly

1918.

nincs betöltve

Terray Gyula

Sándor Elek

Bárány Károly

The Royal Hungarian Forestry Office in Apatin

SÁNDOR OROSZI

During the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1867-1918) the two main pillars of Hungarian forestry policy were the fastest possible marketing of the timber stock of forests that had been in existence for centuries and lumbering trees and giving arable land over to more intensive farming in areas more suitable for agriculture. The state forestry office established in 1882 in Apatin (now in Serbia) undertook these two forestry management goals with considerable success. This was largely the result of the fact that the office managed farming on the fertile plains of the Danube, which had already been partly regulated.

The study devotes particular attention to the office’s activities directed at the renewal of overused soft-wood forests situated in low-lying flood areas unsuitable for agriculture. Neither coppicing nor natural propagation would result in willow or poplar forests quite similar to earlier ones created by nature’. Attention then was centred on non-native, mainly American, ash types, as well as European-American hybrid poplar clones. On the other hand tilling and propagation material could not have been successfully provided yet. At the same time the problem of damage done by game was already a serious concern and remains so to this day.

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