Forestry policy in Andalusia: from the General Plan of National Repopulation to the Andalusian Forest Plan. Granada (1938-2018)
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Abstract
As a consequence of the extensive deforestation that the country suffered from at the start of the 20th Century, various repopulation initiatives were promoted by the administration. One of these was the repopulation of the forest laid out in the Hydraulic Work Plans, proposed without success during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and the Second Republic. But the most important intervention was developed after the civil war, by the General Plan of Spanish Forest Repopulation (PGRFE), overseen at the order of Franco by the Engineers of Montes Ximénez de Embún and Luis Ceballos. The province of Granada underwent intensive repopulating intervention, whose results are still visible in the forest landscape. With the arrival of forest material transfers, the Andalusian Forestry Plan (PFA) was developed for Andalusia, whose initiatives represented an accompaniment to the proceedings developed in the previous General National Plan. This work intends to make the results of the General Plan of Forest Repopulation known, along with the most stand out aspects of the Andalusian Forestry Plan in the province of Granada, in a new context of climate change that is affecting conifers as a result of this repopulating intervention.