Los incendios en el monte comunal gallego. Lugo durante el primer franquismo

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse forest arsons as one more variable of the social conflict -always multidimensional- caused by the application of Franco's forest legislation, and as an environmental conflict too. The causality, nature and consequences of arsons in repopulated common lands in Galicia during the first two decades of Franco's regime will be discussed. Thus, an exhaustive analysis of the reports of fires affecting indirect common lands in the Forest District of the province of Lugo will be carried out. That is to say, lands in which the national organism (State Forest Patrimony), the town halls and the County council took part.