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(Latvian Public Broadcasting) On Thursday, December 10, the Saeima in the final reading adopted amendments to the Gauja National Park Law so that landowners owners will be able to more easily fell trees that have become infected with the eight-toothed bark beetle (
Ips typographus), a pest that is having an increasingly serious affect on spruce trees.
Land, including private land, within the Gauja National Park boundaries is subject to strict nature protection measures and the felling of mature trees in particular is something that generally requires considerable paperwork to be completed and permission to be obtained.
However, in future pest control measures will be possible if no habitat of specially protected species has been identified in the relevant forest stand. It will though be necessary to receive the opinion of the State Forest Service Sanitary and Nature Protection Board for felling damaged trees.