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VI. PROJECT ASSESSMENT
VI.1. LANDSCAPE & ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
1. Proportion of uses at regional scale (%)
Agricultural:		53
Forestry:		44
Urban & Unproductive:		2
Others		1
Name of the reference region/province/county:
Murcia

2. Which ecosystems/habitats once occurred and now occur in the project area?

	Before the project		Present
	% of project area	Main species	% of project area	Main species
Mixed Mediterranean evergreen woodland forest	25	Quercus rotundifolia; Quercus faginea	5	Quercus rotundifolia; Quercus faginea
Mediterranean shrublands (macchia, matorral, garrigue, phrygana,...)
Evergreen oak woodland
Deciduous forest
Pine forest	50	Pinus halepensis; Pinus pinaster	85	Pinus halepensis; Pinus pinaster
Other conifer forest
Savannah-type ecosystem (e.g., dehesa)
Steppes
Permanent grassland, prairie
Annual grassland
Riparian ecosystem	25	Ulmus sp.; Salix sp.; Fraxinus sp.; Populus sp.	10	Ulmus sp.; Salix sp.; Fraxinus sp.; Populus sp.
Orchards, tree crops, etc.
Annual winter crops
Annual summer crops
Bare land (fallows)

Please indicate the reference date (e.g., at the Vtime of project implementation; 25, 50, etc. years before project implementation; etc.):

100 years before the project

3. In the project area, are there any abandoned agricultural terraces?
Yes
a) Date of abandonment of most of them -year(s) or decade(s):

b) Are they narrow (limiting agricultural mechanisation)?
Yes
c) What is their current degree of conservation?
	-	Good
	-	Medium
		Poor
d) Have they been repaired within the framework of the project?
No

4. Are there protected areas in the project area:
Yes
a) Describe relevant legislation (if any) related to species or habitat protection (add reference dates):
Decreto 50/2003 de 30 de Mayo por el que se crea el Catálogo Regional de Flora; Ley 4/92 de 30 de Julio de Ordenación y Protección del Territorio de la Región de Murcia; Ley 7/2003 de 12 de Noviembre de Caza y Pesca Fluvial d
b) Natura 2000 and other protected habitats:
Y
c) Are there protected ecological corridors ?
Yes
Date:	1995
d) Is there a protected area network ?
Yes
Date:

5. Landscape pattern: (Please, provide maps if possible and indicate it in section I.2.3.)

	Yes	No	Partly	Description
a) Is the project area connected to other similar ecosystem/habitat(s) in the surrounding area?		-	-	"Burete, Lavia and Cambrón" mountains in the North and "La Muela" in the South
b) Are project habitats fragmented into a number of patches?		-	-
c) Habitat patches within the project area are close enough to allow free interchange of species?		-	-
d) Is there a natural gradation between habitats within the project area?	-	-		Riparian vegetation is localized in gullies and North aspect slopes
e) Are project edges natural?	-	-


6. Are there negative visual impacts?
a) Resulting from project implementation (e.g., terracing or subsoiling impacts):
No
Description:
b) Resulting from project maintenance works
Yes
Description:	Roads, firebreaks
c) Resulting from exploitation works
No
Description:
d) Resulting from other works
No
Description:

7. Flooding assessment at landscape/catchment scale

Before the project

Since project implementation

Reference period:

Reference period:

a) Flood frequency

Nil

Once every 1-10 years

Once every 10-20 years

Once every 20-50 years

Once every > 50 years

b) Date of last recorded flood event (year(s))

1879

c) Comments on damages from last recorded flood event

Human and material consequences promoted the forestation project

8. Erosion assessment at landscape/catchment scale

Before the project

Since project implementation

Reference period:

Reference period:

a) Erosion/sedimentation rate
(Mg ha-1 year-1)

b) Method of assessment
(USLE estimation, lake/reservoir/dam sedimentation, measurements at plot/catchment scale, etc.)

REACTION: This research is supported by the "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development" programme, under contract EVK2-2002-80025

VI. PROJECT ASSESSMENT