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 [...]
'Learning on the Job' on Landgoed Het Lankheet Besides the example forests of LIFE Climate Forest, there are also places where we get to work with climate-smart forest management on a slightly smaller scale. These LOTJs are ideal for researching, trying out and learning in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
