Project, 2024

PFIT Toscana

Territorial Guidance Forest Plans of the Tuscany Region

The geoLAB group is engaged in the development of the Territorial Guidance Forest Plans (Piani Forestali di Indirizzo Territoriale, PFIT) of the Tuscany Region, through the collaboration agreement between the Region and the Regional Research Centre on Forest Sciences (CReSF).

The PFIT provides medium- and long-term management guidelines for publicly, privately and collectively owned forest and silvo-pastoral resources, consistently with and in correlation with the other planning instruments in place (Art. 3, paragraph 3 of Interministerial Decree no. 563765 of 2021).

For each homogeneous area it identifies management guidelines and priorities for the protection, management and enhancement of the territory, specifying (Art. 3, paragraph 8):

• Management guideline (prevailing functions: protective, nature/conservation/landscape protection, productive, tourism/recreation, other functions) (Cartography)
• Structural and infrastructural interventions, including upgrading, maintenance and planning of the road network (Cartography)
• Forms of governance and treatment most suitable for the protection and enhancement of forest resources
• Measures for the protection of biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites and protected areas
• Specific rules of use contained in the landscape plans
• Measures for the protection of sensitive areas, the management of natural risks and adaptation to climate change
• Areas potentially usable for the creation of new forests (e.g. ecological corridors)

Cartographic annexes (Art. 3, paragraph 10, and Art. 6)

• Land use designation, with recognitive value
• Constraints on the territory, with recognitive value
• Public and collective forest and silvo-pastoral properties and map of civic uses
• Silviculturally homogeneous forest areas, with main management guideline
• Structural and infrastructural interventions, including existing and planned forest and silvo-pastoral roads
• Old-growth forests, monumental trees and seed forests, with recognitive value
• Direct protection forests
• Territorial and temporal framework (* MASAF Departmental Decree no. 64807 of 9/2/2023)