On Thursday, April 23, Dominik Saladin from Forst Baden-Württemberg visited with three foresters in training (Benedikt Debes, Louise Harms and Daniel Zeggl) the Freiburg City Forest Enterprise and there the Mooswald with the forest district manager Markus Müller, who is also the managing director of the WaldHaus Freiburg. Dominik being Deputy Forest Head for the Southern Black Forest…
From 15–16 April, 30 forest practitioners, researchers, and representatives from 12 European countries gathered in Binzen, Germany, for a very special two-day workshop – the first-ever “Train the Trainers” event on IBP, organised by the Integrate Network in collaboration with the EU Horizon TRANSFORMIT Project. We specifically invited a small group of participants to allow…
By Silvester Boonen, with Jonas Simons, Yannick De Win and Raghav Sharma In Belgium, we say, “meten is weten”, which translates to measuring is knowing. That idea quietly guided us on a crisp January morning in the Sonian Forest, where local researchers, forest managers, and practitioners gathered for a training event organised within the context…
For one semester, Simon Musin, Antoine Van Lede, Samuel Konsdorff, Louis Uytterhaegen and Tom Schriewer shared a mission: To figure out how to set up a new marteloscope close to their Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty in Belgium. But how does one set-up a 1-hectare forested, monitored, and mapped site, used to train forest managers, owners or students on the intersection of biodiversity conservation and timber production? We sat down…
Guest article by Vasyl Lavnyy and Peter Spathelf, originally written in German and published here. One of the central tasks of forest management is deciding when, where, and what kinds of interventions are needed in a forest. But what factors should influence those decisions? Participants of forestry workshops often bring very different goals, motivations, and levels of experience to…
The marteloscope Sailershausen 2. Written by Andreas Schuck, Senior Researcher at the European Forest Institute Integrating multiple forest management objectives and increasing forest resilience despite the uncertainties of our climatic and socioeconomic future is a challenge for forest managers. Marteloscopes are field plots in which every tree has been mapped and measured. They are thus…
Guest article by Vasyl Lavnyy1, Peter Spathelf2 1Vize-Rektor für Forschung an der Nationalen Forsttechnischen Universität der Ukraine in Lviv, Dr. habil.; 103 General Chuprynka st., Lviv, 79057, Ukraine; lavnyy@gmail.com 2Professur für Angewandten Waldbau, Hochschule für Nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde; Schicklerstrasse 5, D-16225 Eberswalde, Germany; peter.spathelf@hnee.de Eine Hauptaufgabe der Waldbewirtschaftung ist es, zu entscheiden, wann, wo und welche Art von Eingriffen durchgeführt werden müssen. Was sind Faktoren,…
It was a dark and murky evening as I paved my way through Harcourt Street in Dublin. That’s when I suddenly found myself in a pub – not the kind where a lad or lass would sing a folk song – but rather a cosy, wooden, meeting room turned pub, where I’d stumble across familiar…
Michael Healy-Rae TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, delivers a warm welcome address to open the 11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting. Minister Healy-Rae is pictured addressing delegates during a visit to the forest at the Teagasc National Research Centre in Oak Park, where participants explored the local marteloscope…
Article written by Katharina Freund, Theresa Frei, Hannah Ertelt (European Forest Institute) How can genuine dialogue about forests succeed? This question stood at the beginning of the Martelkom project and became the starting point for its new guide “Forest Dialogues”, developed at the European Forest Institute (EFI) together with colleagues from the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg…