Lesy ČR to announce forestry tenders worth roughly 15 billion crowns

The state-owned Lesy ČR, overseeing half of the country’s forestland, is to announce tenders in forestry as well as the sale of wood worth around 15 billion crowns. The tenders will cover work on some 108 areas of land, to be undertaken between 2011 and 2020, in total 12 million hectares, or roughly 90 percent of forest belonging to the firm. Contracts won will be signed for periods from one to up to ten years.