Dunhuang protective forest was destroyed Introduction to Dunhuang Yangguan Forest Farm

Just today, my country's most important green forest farm for sand control, Yangguan Forest Farm, has been cut down. It is my country's ecological environment protection zone and Dunhuang's protective forest. Moreover, it has been subject to logging in recent years. We must pursue those who cut down the trees to the end and return us a green forest. People's Daily commented on the destruction of the Dunhuang protective forest

The state-owned Yangguan Forest Farm, located on the eastern edge of the Kumtag Desert and once owned about 20,000 acres of the "Three North" protective forest belt, is the most important sand prevention and control center in Dunhuang. Green lifeline: Recently, Dunhuang Yangguan Forest Farm was accused of having been subjected to large-scale "head-cutting" logging for ten years. According to the latest news released by @Dunhuang, Dunhuang City immediately set up a special work team to conduct investigations on relevant issues in accordance with laws and regulations, and announced the relevant situation in a timely manner. The People's Daily commented on this: We look forward to getting to the bottom of the investigation, and we will never allow the efforts of generations to be ruined by quick success. "If you want to defend Dunhuang, you must first defend Yangguan." Once the Green Great Wall of Yangguan is destroyed, what will be done to protect Dunhuang? Ecological and environmental protection is a contribution to the present and will benefit the future. We must calculate big accounts, long-term accounts, and comprehensive accounts. !

Once the matter was disclosed, it attracted attention from all parties. In this regard, Dunhuang City set up a special work team to investigate related issues; Gansu Province also set up an investigation team led by the deputy governor to conduct investigations and verifications together with Jiuquan City and Dunhuang City. The investigation team stated that it will conduct investigations in accordance with laws and regulations, and if any violations of laws and regulations are confirmed, they will be investigated and dealt with strictly. The local government did not avoid the issue and carried out comprehensive investigation and verification, which is worthy of recognition. The whole society also expects a comprehensive and clear response to what the facts are, how serious the situation is, and how to assign responsibility. Yangguan Forestry Farm

As Dunhuang’s green barrier against sand, Yangguan Forestry Farm has a saying that “defend Dunhuang first, defend Yangguan”, and its importance is obvious. Most of the forest land that has been cut down and destroyed is used to grow grapes, which consumes a lot of water and requires frequent disturbance of the surface soil. According to information from Yangguan Forestry Farm, grape production has become the pillar industry of the forestry farm. Is this a typical short-sighted behavior of sacrificing the ecological environment for temporary economic development? If it is "people advance - green retreats - sand advances", if tens of thousands of acres of protective forest turn into "green desert", it will undoubtedly be a harm to the land and the ecology. pain. It has to be said that even if short-term benefits are obtained, they will turn into yellow sand.

In desertified areas, it is easy to cut down trees but difficult to plant them. But trees can never be cut down at will, let alone in state-owned forest farms. We need to ask: How is the approval process passed after a large-area public welfare forest is cut down and commercial crops are introduced? From felling to planting, the public welfare forest turns into a vineyard. It is difficult to "not know it", so the "disappeared forest farm" Why has it become a "hidden corner"? If forest farms strengthen the public welfare forest label, if the forestry department strictly examines and approves logging qualifications, if? Then today, the common people will not sigh "I sweated for the forest in the past, but now shed tears for the forest." Every tree in the forest is lost precisely because responsibility is lost at all levels. This is a warning to people that they must be responsible for protecting the land and must do so responsibly. They must not let the forest land snatched from the "sand tiger" die halfway.