Confiscation of mountains in the 21st century?

The desamortización of lands belonging to "dead hand" or "uneducated" were a series of historical processes that occurred mostly in Spain during the 19th century promoted by the bourgeoisie liberal with the dual purpose of raising funds for the public finances and of step put into production wasteland. The best known were the Mendizábal (in the 30 years of the 19th century, affecting particularly to noble and ecclesiastical property) and the Madoz (in the 50 years of the century affect in addition to the pre-mountains of the State and people). Its financial implications were certainly poor, while their environmental consequences could be catastrophic to not be by the brake that meant the creation of the mountains catalogue, except the disposal (today catalogue of mountains of public utility), whose clothing was commissioned with great urgency to the then newly created Corps of engineers of Montes.

However, it is estimated that they could eventually disappear about 3 or 4 million hectares forested because of its logging and clearing basically disappeared whose role in the protection of soils against erosion and the regulation of the water regime of water flows more or less abruptly dramatically intensifying erosion and the impoverishment of the soils and the regime of avenues of many rivers and streams. And this without the drastic loss of habitats for numerous species, including no doubt many of them local disappearance.

As well, after this unfortunate assessment, Professor and former centre-right Minister posfranquista Mr Lamo de Espinosa is allowed, nearly two centuries later, invoke a new confiscation of mountains to reduce the public deficit that international financial speculators have intentionally shot through increased interest and the cost of insurance of the debt in a attack in any rule against the sovereignty of Spain (as of any State when they consider it desirable to their private interests).

In the 19th century could have some sense, the liberal logic of the era, selling uneducated land to increase agricultural production, and there was market for this (even though he was much more restricted recognition by the desamortizadores)(, for reasons that are beside the point). If today were put on the market public forests once made enormous legislative reforms essential to do so, must be taken into account that currently occupy mostly non-arable land by their soil and slope conditionsthat the markets for forest products are generally under minimum, that the real estate bubble exploded recently to undermine the possible urbanizadoras expectations and that the purely speculative investment for its acquisition detraería precious financial resources to productive activities at the present time.

In short, it is more than doubtful that there were buyers, and which may be of interest are would be in any case speculators who provide a golden opportunity to divert resources from productive and fiscal system.

Local authorities should not be forgotten that the mount is a vast source of productive resources, employment and based on an industrial fabric that should never become as low level as the current

This is to say nothing of plundering public natural heritage, which will be more or less productive or valuable consideration for their owners, but which no longer become the collective property of the State, the autonomous communities and peoples and its inhabitants (that exist)(, although from the centres of power often forget); that is part of environmental basic infrastructure of a country, as to make such enormous heritage happily to private hands, and in particular and very probably to hands of financial speculators.

I think that at the moment so unfortunate and anachronistic idea for the reasons expressed should be categorically rejected. But it is also true that involved Government - central, regional, premises to the extent that each appropriate - must be a major effort in the management of this immense forest public wealth, whose systematic neglect in the past 30 years has deepened the rural crisis today we suffer: do not forget that the mount is a vast source of productive resources, employment and based on an industrial fabric that should never become as low level as the current. The obvious needs to meet a strong conservationist demand have been the alibi of this policy of neglect, but I think that the time comes, without neglecting such a demand, reinstate the mountains chain, in the belief that evening or early the productive economy will again take the role that corresponds to the financiero-especulativa economy.

And to not start the House with the roof, the first attention should be directed to models of administrative organization allowing such objectives of production goods direct and indirect, meaning the latter services such as the protection of soils, the regulation of the water regime, the maintenance of biodiversity, the fixation of CO₂ atmospheric, the landscape as an active tourist, leisure and recreation of the populations, etc.

((Dichos_modelos,_que_pueden_ser_diferentes_para_cada_administración_pública,_deberían_sin_embargo_basar_se_en_tres_principios_básicos:_a) budget and autonomy of management on the basis of partial public (through funding before related services), b) specialization in the area of montes management and marketing of their products while avoiding dispersion of competencies in its midst and finally (c)) exercise of administrative powers for the better defence of the public domain or if any of the publicly owned no demanial. There are various figures which meet the three requirements in our administrative law: public agencies, autonomous bodies, public business entities and others.

Administrations as prestigious as the French through the national Office of forests have opted for models of this type successfully consolidated over the years. I understand that it is the time of adding value to our forest public patrimony, and not his nineteenth century confiscation, despite the siren calls that they advocate this solution, which according to Rodeo and rural expression is nothing more than "bread for today" and hunger for tomorrow (in the most optimistic case).