Yeongdeok-gun Hosts '2023 Forest Care Day' Event

43 Billion Won Budget Invested in 1,500ha Forest Project

Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, held the ‘2023 Forest Care Day’ event on the 23rd at the Forest Ecological Park in Changpo-ri, Yeongdeok-eup, coinciding with the November forest care period and including a wildfire prevention campaign.

Yeongdeok-gun held the '2023 Forest Management Day' event.

Held under clear autumn weather, about 60 participants from forestry-related organizations and local residents took part in activities such as applying solid fertilizer to landscaping trees like pine and metasequoia, pruning branches, and cleaning the surrounding environment within the Forest Ecological Park.

Kim Dong-hee, Deputy Governor of Yeongdeok, said, “Planting trees is important, but now the bigger challenge is how to properly nurture and manage what has been planted. We will continue to promote ongoing forest care projects to create healthy forests and be more thorough in wildfire prevention to protect and preserve our precious forest heritage.”

Yeongdeok-gun designates the entire month of November as the ‘Forest Care Period’ every year to protect forest resources, conducting forest care events for trees planted in spring and afforestation areas. This year, through a public-private cooperative forestry management pilot project with the Yeongdeok-gun Forestry Cooperative, a budget of 4.3 billion KRW has been invested to implement phased projects including large tree care, afforestation area care, and wildfire prevention forest care across 1,500 hectares of forest.

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