Besides his work at WUR and the Von Gimborn Arboretum, Leo Goudzwaard is also active at the 'Climate Forest inspiration' arboretum in Wageningen. Visiting Arboretum Oostereng: for inspiration and examples Arboretum Oostereng is not officially a LIFE Climate Forest demo site, but the [...]
Example forests mapped: these are them Sharing knowledge about climate-smart forest management is one of the main components of the LIFE Climate Forest project. We do this through training courses, field excursions, symposiums and in our demo forests and reference forests. In not all sample forests the [...]
Replica project: Utrecht Ridge On the Utrecht Ridge, Staatsbosbeheer and Bosgroep Midden-Nederland are working together to make multifunctional forests on sandy soils more resilient to climate change and acidification. The multi-year project 'Climate Smart Forest Management' (2024-2029) focuses on climate-proofing a demo site and three practical sites [...]
Visit Prolander to Rozendaalse Bos On Friday 27 September, 35 employees of Prolander and the province of Drenthe took part in an excursion in the exemplary Rozendaalse Bos forest. Despite the heavy rain, the participants entered the forest enthusiastically. During the excursion, Brian [...]
Presentation: revitalising Brabant forests Province of North Brabant organised the 2024 Forest Symposium on Friday 5 July. Together with BPG Vereniging landelijk Brabant, Bosgroep Zuid Nederland was allowed to provide the execution and interpretation. And apparently the topic and content appealed to a lot of people, because [...]
Article: seeking protection from wildlife damage Continuous forest rejuvenation is an important means of increasing forest resilience. It is only difficult to get such rejuvenation off the ground. The main reason: damage to saplings by wildlife [...]
Meeting Mid term On 24 June 2024, the Mid Term visit took place where our monitor from ELMEN An Bollen and the CINEA European Commission Boyana Vassileva were present. The duration of the LIFE Climate Forest project is already halfway and therefore the 'mid term meeting' was on the [...]
Article: forests must be managed differently Climate change is also affecting Dutch forests. "We need to manage them differently, otherwise we will lose a large part of our forests in the next century," says forest ecologist Etiënne Thomassen in this article in De Gelderlander. At 30 [...]
Brochure climate-smart forest management On 30 May 2024, the first LIFE Climate Forest brochures were presented to private forest owners as well as governments and organisations owning forests. The publications are intended as a first introduction to climate-smart forest management. The brochure covers the following topics:The need for climate-smart forest management.LIFE [...]
Article: the need for forest adaptation It is high time for forest managers to think about how to deal with climate change. Climate change and other changes in our environment are creating permanently altered forest cover at a rate and magnitude that will make our forests and trees [...]
