Mass beetle reproduction and windblow in Carinthia

On 13 October 2022, the Servizio Foreste e Fauna of the Autonomous Province of Trento presented the final report concerning damage caused by storm Vaia from 27 to 30 October 2018. Although the processing of wood damaged by the storm four years ago is ongoing in some areas of Trentino, the volume of roundwood broken or...

According to new estimates by the forestry authority of the provincial administration of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol, 2.2m m³ of beetle-damaged wood has accumulated in South Tyrol up to the end of October. This figure was provided by Günther Unterthiner, director of the forestry department, on 21...

In the two Austrian federal states of Styria and Carinthia, it is feared that the volume of storm-damaged wood which accumulated after the thunderstorms on 18 August 2022 might exceed a volume of 1m m³. The official damage estimate of 400,000 m³ published in Styria already one day after the event is meanwhile...