About company
The Beginning
The last decade of the past century can be characterized as time of promptly changing life. One of striking demonstrations of that time is aspiration of many people to constantly live out-of-town in modern comfortable conditions among the nature and ecologically safe landscape.
Buying a site for individual building more often people prefer a natural wood. In hope to get an ideal combination of qualitative accommodation and a beautiful wood landscape behind a window after the termination of all engineering-building and landscape works.
At the same time the owners have faced a problem at once - soon enough trees start to feel depressed, they shed foliage and needles and after quite a short period of time they perish.
The need for the experts capable to estimate a situation, to give building recommendations, to provide treatment, care and safety to trees was exactly the reason of creating the Open Company OOO "DIN PLUS" in 1995. We consider this year a year of the birth of our organization. The organization which for the first time in Russia has designated their overall objective as the qualified care of preservation of wood vegetation in city territories and their suburbs.
All over the world tree treatment and care became a norm long time ago. In the multioccupied Europe practically all woods are in private possession. People there have long since realized that every tree is invaluable therefore the care of its safety is priority. All trees in suburbs and particularly in cities are described and taken into account.
The development of cottage building has generated a steady demand for services of the company - diagnostics, treatment and care of trees. The motto of OOO "DIN PLUS" became the words "We treat forest!" A basis of the company formed the diplomaed experts - graduates of the Moscow State University of the Forest, post-graduate students and professors of the University. Among consultants of the company there are famous scientists - candidates and doctors of sciences, members of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
The academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, doctor of sciences, professor, the dean of forestry faculty in MSUF Oleg Aleksandrovich Kharin have commented the establishment of the company in the following words: "Occurrence of Open Company OOO "DIN PLUS" is caused by growing need for the experts capable to estimate skillfully the condition of wood and to carry out a challenge of combining park-and-forest landscape with modern comfortable accommodation. Alongside with practical work many employees of the firm carry out scientific researches connected with problems of ecology, stability of the plantings subject to anthropogenic influences. Rich practical experience and deep scientific knowledge make experts of the company the irreplaceable assistants on treatment and care of wood trees".
Today our organization refers to as NPSA “HEALTHY FOREST”, (Noncommercial Partnership the Strategic Alliance). The structure of NPSA includes OOO "DIN PLUS" and OOO "HEALTHY FOREST", the Center of Wood Expertise (CWE) and the editorial staff of magazine Alive Forest. All these directions and kinds of activity enrich us with invaluable experience and scientific knowledge and allow us to qualitatively implement our activity and develop the civilized market of tree care.
The basic direction - diagnostics, treatment and care of trees
Our basic service, our special offer, so to say, is diagnostics and treatment of trees. It includes:
• ultrasonic diagnostics, revealing of hidden decays;
• treatment and cosmetic reconstruction of mechanical damages;
• sanitary pruning;
• sanitation of condensed soils, deep loosening and application of fertilizers;
• anti-pest and pathogenic microorganisms treatment with a "cold fog" method;
• removal of problem trees, crushing of stubs.
Carrying out the above kinds of work we were the first company in Russia which began to apply unique technical equipment and devices for diagnostics and tree treatment produced in Germany, Finland and Sweden. Understanding the fact that the forming market on tree care will demand the advanced equipment HEALTHY FOREST has concluded the treaty with RINNTECH company (Germany) on exclusive distribution and deliveries into Russian territory of the equipment and devices for research and diagnostics of inner condition of trees and wood. The web site www.resistograph.ru is devoted to the unique equipment of RINNTECH company as well as opportunities of its application and purchase.
New directions - the requirement of the time
Seeing that landscape works in wood territories frequently lead to tree death since such works are often carried out without taking into account the requirements of wood vegetation to conditions of their growth, and going towards to wishes of customers, in the structure of HEALTHY FOREST there was created a landscape department which purpose became the maximal preservation of trees on a built up forest plot at performance of the final stage of formation park-and-forest territory.
Specificity of realization of landscape works in the forest demands special knowledge and skills. Landscape activity of HEALTHY FOREST includes such kinds of works as design, creation of park-and-forest landscapes, replacing planting, drainage works, strengthening of abrupt slopes, ravines, coast, creation of automatic watering and irrigation systems.
After the landscape works the site gets the finished artistic appearance being the sample of a combination of a wood natural landscape and a creative man-made landscape.
Last years more and more wood territories around large cities are taken in long-term rent with a view of recreation. These territories are supposed to be developed actively that will inevitably lead to strengthening of anthropogenous influence. Responding to the requirements of the time and continuing to develop the market of services on tree care we have considerably expanded the sphere of our activity.
Today our experts have to answer many questions that are interests of investors – what is the condition of a rented wood, whether it is capable to withstand heavy recreational duty, building and landscape works on creation of park-and-forest zones, areas for rest and places of mass visiting?
During several years HEALTHY FOREST implements the following kinds of activity:
• designing projects of forest plots development;
• development of revegetation projects;
• expertise of consequences of architectural and landscape projects influence on trees;
• expertise of wood plots for building works;
• support of the state and municipal expertise;
• forest regulation and forest recovery;
• realization of fire-prevention arrangement.
Training of experts
Working in rare and unique for those days sphere of diagnostics and treatment of trees we had to train specialists on our own, use our own experience to bring up the experts capable to apply in practice the technology and methods developed by us, the experts able to use the newest equipment and devices. More and more obvious became the idea: the market on tree care cannot develop without the diplomaed, comprehensively prepared experts.
Considering the fact that in our country such training of experts was not earlier conducted NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" became the initiator of opening in 2007 in the Moscow State University of the Wood a new specialization "Technology of Tree Care in the Urbanized Environment".
Understanding that the market of such services in Russia is only forming our company tries to be in the vanguard of this process, to direct it to the civilized course, to provide the growing market with experts of higher education.
More and more obvious became the correctness of the statement: ‘only an individual approach to every tree, its protection and preservation is a solely true way to ecological safety and preservation of the environment and ultimately the health and well-being of human beings’. In this connection NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" makes the maximum efforts to explain the necessity of care of every concrete tree, of its uniqueness and originality. Different articles are published in popular mass media, the original and well-remembered creative approaches are applied for creation of advertising modules and polygraphic products, many videoplots are shot, the outdoor advertising and the Internet are involved. NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" participates constantly in profile exhibitions, scientifically-practical conferences on problems of city gardening and creation of recreational areas.
As a result of our educational activity we can ascertain the following – here comes the mass comprehension of necessity of care of wood trees that have appeared near people as fate has willed - at an entrance of the house, in city park, on a country site comes.
Magazine about life of trees
Observing the way the market on tree care develops in Europe we have noted a lot of specialized publications devoted the given subjects. Obviously in our country we have had a pressing need in the title which could accumulate all the themes concerning trees, to draw attention of the wide public to problems of city plantings and park-and-forest areas as well as to ecological safety of the population.
Considering all the things above beginning from 2007 NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" became the founder and publisher of the first and unique mass popular scientific and educational publication in Russia about trees - magazine Alive Forest. The magazine publishes articles of biologists, pieces of advice of landscape architects, forest pathologists and arborists, it also takes up the legal and financial questions connected to rent of the ground and statements of the new Wood Code. The magazine is aimed at the broad audience of readers and professionals: experts on tree care, gardeners, ecologists, teachers, nature protection workers, municipal services. The web site www.givoyles.ru publishes announcements of articles in Alive Forest, provides a forum for all tree and nature lovers.
Having seen what genuine interest the first releases of the magazine get, how many people - experts and ordinary tree and wood lovers - wish to take part in creation of the magazine sending their articles and photo materials, we come to conclusion that our decision is quite right - the specialized magazine about life of trees Alive Forest is necessary. It is one more important element in the row of the factors influencing creation of the market of services on tree care.
Center of Wood Expertise
The last important event is creation of Center of Wood Expertise on the basis of dendro-chronological laboratory of NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST". Today more and more often we can hear disputes and conflicts about trees. The number of people not indifferent to destiny of the city plantings sharply reacting to the actions leading to ruin wood vegetation. The administration, operational services, builders and inhabitants of cities and suburbs appear to be the interested parties in solving such problems. According to the growth of legal consciousness of the population more and more often the arising disputes about trees, about the reasons of their destruction or necessity of their removal are resolved in the sphere of civil and criminal legal proceedings and require a special wood expertise. Considering a growing need for demonstrative base for solving the problem the Center implements the following kinds of expert judgments:
• expertise of the reasons of deterioration of tree and forest stands condition;
• expertise of legality of tree removal;
• identification of terms and reasons of a tree death;
As well as definition of:
• degree of influence on a vital condition of trees of the conducted building, meliorative and landscape works;
• whether a tree was decayed at the moment of its removal;
• time when a tree was removed;
• place of a tree growth;
• identity of the given stub and trunk to one and the same tree;
The Center of Wood Expertise is ready to help all interested organizations and persons to solve the arising disputes requiring a conclusion of experts in the field of wood expertise. You can prove your position on any arisen dispute being based on professional opinion of experts of our Center and to answer demonstratively many questions regarding a condition or death of trees.
We are sure – the Center of Wood Expertise will bring its contribution to formation of the civilized market of tree care services as well as enrich it with its scientific innovations and advanced techniques.
Estimation of our activity
For years of its existence the company "HEALTHY FOREST" has turned to the powerful structure including 5 departments - wood, landscape, scientific, educational and transport. For today the works are conducted in many directions, the number of the services grows constantly. NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" and its structures are awarded with many certificates of honor and letters of thanks.
One of the latest successes of the company is the reception of a rank of the winner of the First National Premium in the field of creation of a comfortable inhabitancy of a person - "Russia Blossoming" and the web site of the company www.zles.ru became the winner of the All-Russian open Internet-competition "Golden Site".
What is the future?
We are often asked the questions - what for do we develop expansive directions - formation and training of experts, publication of the profile magazine, what for do we provide the modern equipment and technologies to the participants of the developing market of services on tree care? It is easy to answer these questions. Not everything in the world is measured by money. Our attitude to every tree as to a surprising and unique product of the nature make us think about answering the main question – how will we live further? Will the momentary interests of the certain groups for ever a priority and we will gradually lose the main element of a natural landscape - a tree restraining with its replacement by the stone inhabitancy. In fact educational activity ultimately brings up lots of people in understanding of necessity of care of every tree - in the city, in the house, on a site.
Being engaged in scientific and pedagogical activity we put new techniques and technologies in practice. We are convinced - education, science and business – these are the elements of the progress. Only in such combination in developing all these directions the creation of the civilized market of services on diagnostics and treatment of trees is possible.
And one more touch – we simply love the work we are engaged in. We have chosen an object of love and protection - an alive tree and we will protect it as long as possible. Our main aim is to show people our understanding and our love to trees, to constantly remind a society that trees are alive and without our indefatigable care they are simply doomed to destruction in the conditions of powerful anthropogenous influence.
Nevertheless despite of all evident successes in development of the company we can say – NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST" is only at the beginning of the grandiose process which should be designated as a mass development and formation of the all-Russian civilized market of services on diagnostics, treatment and care of trees and creation of ecologically protected inhabitancy of a person. Everything is still ahead!
Sergey Palchikov
President, NPSA "HEALTHY FOREST",
Candidate of agricultural sciences
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