Ice storm that has affected nearly half of Slovenian forests in February 2014, also damaged 4.755 ha of forests in the Kras Forest District. We have analyzed the damage on trees in the forest management units Vrhe and Vremščica. With data of 252 sampling plots we assessed the type and degree of damage on trees. 68 % of the growing stock was damaged in forest management unit Vrhe and 57 % of the growing stock in forest management unit Vremščica. Because of the high degree of damage approximately one third of damaged trees was necessary to cut down. For deciduous trees, where the beech has the majority stake in both forest management units, the degree of damage was around 70 %. For conifers was the degree of damage from 10 % in the forest management unit Vremščica to 40 % in the forest management unit Vrhe. Less than one-third of small-sized diameter trees (breast height up to 30 cm) was damaged in both forest management units.
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