Field trip

One-day field trip to Nature Reserve Monte Rufeno and surroundings. 

Field trip programme- Saturday 20 September

08:30      Departure by bus from Orvieto " Parco della Fiera" parking lot

09:30      Arrival at "Villalba" forestry district managed by the local Mountain Community

10:00      Visit to Oak stands in conversion from coppice to high forest

11:00      Visit to Black Pine reforestation stands

13:30      Picnic lunch at "Monaldesca" agritouristic resort in "Monte Rufeno Natural Reserve"

15:30      Transfer to "Monti Cimini" forest area

17:00      Visit to a local sawmill processing chestnut wood

18:30      Visit to Chesnut forests for timber and fruit and to the Beech "old forest" in Soriano nel Cimino

20:00      Dinner at "La Faggeta" restaurant

22:00      Departure for Orvieto

The Monte Rufeno Nature Reserve extends across an area of 3,000 hectares between the regions of Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany. It protects large areas of woodland in a countryside made up of hills predominant with mixed oak forests. The field trip gives a possibility to get to know the silvicultural treatments of coppices, pine reforestation, forest fire prevention and ecotourism in the area.

The second topic enlightens the wood co-operation in the area from the forest to industrial plant. We will stop in a forest with regular silvicultural measures such as thinning etc., and after that we will visit a sawmill.