Monitoring planting in example forests - A lot of new trees are being planted within the LIFE Climate Forest project, but that does not mean that in ten years' time there will actually be that many mature trees. Indeed: within a year, some of them may already be [...]
Getting started yourself with LOTJ in Baarle-Nassau - Hans van Lommel, forest ecologist at Bosgroep Zuid Nederland, gave a guided tour of the Dutch Pine Forest in Baarle-Nassau earlier this month. During the tour, he talked about the revitalisation of the area. In [...]
Interview LOTJ Landgoed Zandbergen and Landgoed Maretak - In Loon op Zand in an offshoot of the shifting sands of the Loonse and Drunense Dunes are the Zandbergen and Maretak estates. The woods are connected at the back and this area has been designated as LOTJ [...]
Experiments Beegderheide should better arm nature - In the woods of the Beegderheide nature reserve (province of Limburg), forest experts from Bosgroep Zuid Nederland are working with almost surgical precision. In this example forest of LIFE Climate Forest, small scale and mixing with more tree species is central. Daily newspaper [...]
LOTJ in Staphorst: climate-smart forest management in larch forest - In addition to the example forests of LIFE Climate Forest, there are also places where we are working on climate-smart forest management on a smaller scale. These LOTJs are ideal for researching, trying out and sharing [...]
On the left Martijn Jansen and in the middle the deputy (photographer Kayleigh Aalderink) Presentation in sample forest for province of Drenthe - LIFE Climate Forest is partly possible thanks to the five provinces that endorse the importance of climate-smart forest management. One of those provinces involved [...]
Presentation during SUPERB forest symposium What an energetic gathering it was in Moergestel. More than 200 people with a green heart came together to share experiences and stories, to be inspired and to look further into the future. The [...]
Trial of biodegradable wildlife protection Our forest ecosystems are fragile. Continuous forest rejuvenation is an important means of increasing forest resilience. Natural selection keeps only the best traits in the rejuvenation, allowing the forest to adapt to changing [...]
LOTJ 't Bosje: learning, managing and trying out together The De Goudfazant estate, better known as 't Bosje, is a place in the Markdal below Breda with old oak lanes, a wooded avenue, grassland, forest plots, wooded banks and pollarded willows. Family and friends go there together to work on the [...]
Experiment with seeding Ubbink forest and Boschoord With climate-smart forest management, we look for risk spreading. And to get new tree species into the forest, we plant many young (climate-smart) trees within the LIFE project. But there is another way to rejuvenate the forest... seeding. In Germany [...]
