The forest of the future is full of surprises - Article in Dagblad van het Noorden, 05 September 2026, page 31. Joep van Ruiten interviewed Lars Visser (Bosgroepen) and Jacob Kruijer (Boschoord Estate) about their active contribution to LIFE Climate Forest. The [...]
Review of symposium 3 September 2026 - With the LIFE Climate Forest project, Staatsbosbeheer and the Bosgroepen are focusing on climate-smart forest management - with an eye on the future. The provinces of Noord-Brabant, Limburg, Overijssel, Gelderland and Drenthe are contributing to this, and in Utrecht there is a [...]
Experiment with sheep's wool in the forest - It might look a bit strange, but the wool in the Mastbos was placed there very deliberately around the young trees. It was something different from the usual for Lisa Raats and Julian [...]
More on LIFE Climate Forest in 'Trees about Forests' - A podcast about the future of our forests in times of drought and warming. Jan Westerhof and Sander Kooistra speak with experts, such as forest owners, managers, and ecologists. The podcast addresses questions [...]
Black protective cover (2) Plantagard (3) Biowit (4) New planting with protection at the demo site of Hardenberg forest ranger's office - In the spring of 2026, Lennart Baas and his colleagues from the IJsselvallei and Vechtdal team (State Forestry) will have quite a bit of new [...]
Excursion to the replica demonstration forest at Pijnenburg Estate during FSC-PEFC training day - In April, the Bosgroepen once again organised a training day for the holders of the FSC and PEFC group certificates. During the morning programme, Etiënne Thomassen (on behalf of LIFE Climate Forest) gave a presentation on the [...]
Students from Ghent University visit demonstration forest 't Zand - On Wednesday 15 April, students from Ghent University came to the Netherlands for an excursion. They were guests of Bosgroep Zuid Nederland that day and also visited a [...]
Film about exemplary forest Beegderheide - Province of Limburg (one of the supporting provinces of LIFE Climate Forest) has made a short film about the exemplary forest Beegderheide. Province of Limburg: "Trees and forests are part of the Limburg landscape. The preservation and management of the [...]
Demo tour along climate-smart species - Anyone interested in how climate-smart species are doing in the Netherlands is welcome to make the route along some 26 species themselves. The newly published brochure indicates the route and offers more information [...]
Monitoring the Liessel forests in pictures - We previously wrote about the monitoring of new planting in some sample LIFE Climate Forest forests in this article on Nature Today and yesterday (3 December 2025) the Liessel forests were [...]
