The Provincial Council of Granada has included the pilot project of a new Bauhaus based on poplar, to promote and facilitate an industry of structural laminates of local poplar wood in the province, promoting its use in local sustainable construction.
The LIFE Wood for Future project and the record price of poplar wood on the market have encouraged the creation in the province of three new certified plant nurseries in the last two years. Given the signs of revival of this traditional crop, entrepreneurs Juan Carlos Cano, Curro Santos and Isaac Rodriguez, all based in Santa Fe, in the Vega de Granada, have opted to exponentially expand the area dedicated to the breeding of new plants to supply their own poplar groves and supply the foresters of the environment.
The European Life: Wood for the Future project aims to promote poplar cultivation in the Vega de Granada, with the dual purpose of contributing to the fight against climate change, improving the environment and at the same time promoting local economic development with the implementation of a profitable and innovative industry focused on wood for bio-construction. Building Engineering of the University of Granada is one of the partners.
Patricia Gómez, COSE Manager, has participated in the 8th Spanish Forestry Congress where she presented the LIFE Wood for Future project
The company Biotecnología y Medioambiente S.L., through a meeting convened by the Diputación de Granada, has presented the project for the restoration of a 12 km stretch of the Dílar river from Gójar to Vegas del Genil.
The Ibero-American Union of Municipalists has visited the field of poplar mother vines planted in the provincial nursery of the Diputación de Granada, as part of its INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL MISSION "SOCIAL INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL TERRITORIES", carried out by the Ibero-American Union of Municipalists (UIM), between June 19 and 25, in different parts of the provinces of Jaén and Granada.
The Plenary Hall of the City Council of Castillejar, a municipality in the region of Huéscar, hosted yesterday afternoon the presentation of the LIFE Wood for the Future project as a tool to revitalize the poplar groves in the province of Granada, thus generating wealth, green jobs and environmental and landscape benefits.
The LIFE Wood for Future project is part of the working group driven and led by the LIFE Resilient Forest project and integrated by eight LIFE projects.
The County Council of Granada today inaugurated the poplar mother stock field created in the Provincial Nursery in Cortijo Peinado in the municipality of Fuente Vaqueros. This action is carried out thanks to the transfer of one hectare of land to the Life Wood for Future project, translated as Wood for the Future in Spanish, which has European funding from the Life program for climate change mitigation. In this case it focuses on the promotion for the recovery of the historic poplar groves of the Vega de Granada.
