Khimki Forest
Seventh time measured
Does everyone know what the public defenders of the forest specifically uphold? The majority of people are inclined to believe that the construction of the route will ruin the plantations on a vast territory, and as a result, the inhabitants of Khimki are threatened with extinction from suffocation. Fears are overstated, and this is evidenced by the data of examinations.
Residents of the urban district do not want to lose, first of all, Khimki oak forest - the most valuable part of a large forest, a place for walking. However, you have to choose the lesser of two evils. From the Leningradskoye Highway, which is crowded with transport, dissecting the city, poisonous exhaust substances penetrate into all corners of the city without breaks for rest. The expressway laid at a distance will pull most of the cars over itself, especially heavy trucks, and soot from traffic jams will decrease.
But, perhaps, the destruction of oak groves is an exorbitantly high price for the promised good?
The fact of the matter is that oak groves will not disappear. Here is the data of an additional (seventh time measured) survey as part of a multi-stage environmental review, conducted by the Institute of Geobotany of the Russian Academy of Sciences (there is no higher level of competence in this part of the country). Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Maslov called the figure: 7, a maximum of 10% of the trees will have to be cut. But how many trunks is it? After all, interest is a poorly tangible thing.
Khimki forest
Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Maslov Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Maslov
Scientists did not round up the data: 1305 trees grow on the right-of-way section, of which 315 trunks of oak, 232 are birch, 163 are rowan … They even rewrote shrubs and grasses: spring chick, yellow goose onion, and buttercup anemone grow here. Not a single plant, said in conclusion, is included in the Red Book of the Moscow Region.
Losses are replenished
All this will be rolled into asphalt. But the losses cannot be called irreparable. Alexander Belozerov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Public Environmental Control, repeated the above said more than once: the cut down will be replenished in five times (!) Size. Plants will be planted not for tens or hundreds of miles, but as close as possible to that very place. Builders do not deceive? Funds for environmental events are an integral part of the highway project approved by the Cabinet. For its failure, you can get a hat, especially after such a fuss.
Forest advocates accuse the authorities that the alternative schemes proposed by them have not been accepted, and the project being implemented is unsuccessful in environmental terms. On the one hand, really, imperfect. Under pressure from the movement of forest defenders at the end of last year, ex-president Dmitry Medvedev stopped work on the highway. All options are once again studied and the most optimal, the initial rejected. The reason is good - he concealed the threat of creating corruption schemes, threatened to steal huge funds.
Another thing is the question of the pearl of the forest - Khimki oak grove. Any alternative would result in exactly the same amount of felling in the same areas. The reason is simple: all nine variants of the route scheme lead to the same bridge over the Klyazma, since there is no other.
Khimki forest
Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He leads the committee for public environmental control of the construction of highways in the Russian Federation. Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He leads the committee for public environmental control of the construction of highways in the Russian Federation.
When you learn all these details, no longer doubting, you realize that the reasons for the war have been exhausted. It's time to build a road. It is desperately needed not only by motorists and the economy of the regions through which it will fly, but also specifically by Khimki.
"Thanks" to opponents
“Environmental activists, as they say, spoiled the blood, but we must also say thank you to them,” said Alexander Maslov. “They sharpened attention to the environmental feasibility of the project, after which it underwent amendments. The vast site of the toll station was supposed to be located right in Khimki oak grove. Now the PVP has been taken beyond its borders - dozens of trees have been saved. We will strictly monitor that shops and other points of garbage do not appear on the roadsides - residents of Khimki are very afraid of this … And in general, the movement of the defenders of the Moscow Region forests made it possible to minimize the environmental damage of not only this - all road construction projects.
