Jacob Kruijer has been grounds and property manager at the Maatschappij van Weldadigheid since 1996. "De Maatschappij van Weldadigheid likes to play a pioneering role, also when it comes to climate-smart forest management" Boschoord estate is part of the property of de Maatschappij van Weldadigheid. A piece of this forest area has now been set up as a model forest for the European project LIFE [...]

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-smart forest management together with owners, managers, policymakers and other stakeholders. A good example is the three-day Climate Smart Forest Management course we organised in the autumn of 2023 [...]

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 arboretum's demo route does provide plenty of inspiration for forest managers and owners who want to work [...]

Demo forests mapped: 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 implementation is ready yet, but in a number of them forest managers, owners, policymakers and other stakeholders can already participate in the project. [...]

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 with existing forest. The project links up with the national project LIFE Climate Forest of [...]

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 van Beek (Senior forester projects, Staatsbosbeheer) and Jan Oldenburger (Forest advisor Gelderland, Staatsbosbeheer) explained the principles of [...]