The Junta's MP for the Environment, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, chose the exact point that this devastating fire broke out to announce that work would begin to restore the affected area.
He was accompanied by another Junta bigwig for the province, Marifrán Carazo, and the Director-General of Política Forestal y Biodiversidad, Giuseppe Aloisio, as well as the mayors of the municipalities affected by the fire.
The Guájares fire was the biggest one this summer in the province, wiping out 5,504 hectáreas spread across five municipalities and at time approaching dangerously urban areas.
This emergency work has a budget of 3.5m euros and will set out to protect 1,450 hectares of mountain side against torrential rain. Restoration work, which started a couple of days ago, is divided into four areas and should be concluded within nine months. The first area comprises of 465 hectares of public mountain land on Pechos de La Galera, within the municipality of Los Guájares.
The second area comprises of nearly 351 hectares in the area of the Puerto de La Toba (municipality of Albuñuelas) and El Valle (Municipality of El Valle).
The third area comprises of 405 hectares is on Cerro Chinchirina (Municipalities of El Pinar & El Valle) as well as Las Llanadas (El Pinar) and private land within Los Guájares.
The last area comprises of 228 hectares of public mountain land around Guájar La Vieja (Los Guájares) and the Venta de La Cebada (El Pinar).
(News: Guájares/Valle de Lecrín, Granada, Andalucia)
Thanks Martin, makes sense and utilising the timber rather than yet more concrete is even better
Having driven through the area in late October, the devqstation is incredible; anything they can do to help Nature recover is money well spent.
Fred: this work is to prevent or slow down soil erosion so they will use the smaller tree trunks, laid on top of each other, to make small walls to catch soil being washed down the slopes, for example. Tree planting will come later, I guess.
Sounds positive but what are they actually doing … not planting Eucalyptus i hope