Jacob Kruijer has been grounds and property manager at the Maatschappij van Weldadigheid since 1996. "The Society of Weldadigheid likes to play a pioneering role, also when it comes to climate-smart forest management" Boschoord estate is part of the property of the Society of Weldadigheid. [...]
Replica: course for forest managers Sharing and transferring valuable knowledge is central to LIFE Climate Forest. Spread over the project years, we organise various knowledge moments in which we get to work on climate forest management together with owners, managers, policymakers and other stakeholders. A good example [...]
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 [...]
