Mastodawn

"Under community #ForestManagement [in Nepal 🇳🇵] local forest rangers worked with the community groups to develop plans outlining how they could develop and manage the #forests. People were able to extract resources from the forests (fruits, medicine, fodder) and sell forest products, but the groups often restricted grazing and tree cutting, and they limited fuelwood harvests. Community members also actively patrolled forests to ensure they were being protected."

https://science.nasa.gov/Earth/earth-observatory/how-nepal-regenerated-its-forests-150937/

How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests

After relinquishing control of forests to the villages that depend on them, forest cover in this small mountainous country nearly doubled.

NASA Science

Technische Universität München Mar 6

Researchers calculated how disturbances like #wildfires, storms, and #barkbeetles, fueled by #climatechange, could transform Europe’s forests by 2100. #ForestDamage could increase, especially in Southern and Western Europe: http://go.tum.de/187640

#ForestManagement

📷R. Seidl

How fires, storms, and bark beetles will shape the future of Europe’s forests

Wildfires, storms, and bark beetles have a major impact on forests and the benefits they provide for people and the environment. For the first time, a…

Technische Universität München Feb 2

Alpine mountain forests are particularly affected by #ClimateChange. Our university launches the Center for #AlpineForest Management to study impacts and long-term options for protective forests: http://go.tum.de/885204

#ForestManagement #sustainability

📷R. Seidl

TUM launches Center for Alpine Forest Management

Sixty percent of Bavaria’s alpine forests serve as protective forests that safeguard settlements and infrastructure from the impacts of extreme…

Oliver Brendel Jan 26

Forest dieback, often related to #ClimateChange, is increasing in many parts of the world, and there is an urgent need to develop an efficient large-scale monitoring system of forest health, to improve forest management.
This study by Carletti et al 2025, based on a combination of satellite and ground level observations, will allow to improve detection of forest dieback, with a species specific calibration, and can therefore be used to produce high-resolution dieback maps at species levels and thus monitor dieback trends over time.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22797254.2025.2547386#d1e1030

#AcademicChatter #BioDiversity
#ForestManagement #Forests #Forestry
#ForestHealth #ForestDieback #ForestDynamics #ForestMonitoring

Oliver Brendel Jan 13

This was a huge work that we just got published on trends and patterns in evidence synthesis within the field of Forestry and Forest-based Sector (F&FS) . The study investigates potential biases in evidence synthesized by examining different forms of synthesis (i.e. systematic and non-systematic), topics covered and geographical distribution of underpinning studies.
Reviewed topics are dominated by #ForestManagement, #Biodiversity and #ClimateChange, even though the field is sprawling away from core silviculture themes and into more transdisciplinary issues.
https://kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fauthors.elsevier.com%2Fsd%2Farticle%2FS1389-9341(25)00272-2/1/0102019bb8f33f70-22cdeb05-eff2-4afb-8f03-b9eb7a3813b3-000000/ERe2uC45FU6T7aRnqe4DgN9NIdQ=460
#bibliometrics #Forests #Forestry #ForestResearch #ForestBasedSector #EvidenceSynthesis
#AcademicChatter

Anthony Jan 12

Last boosts: since this trend has only accelerated, I figured I'd re-share.

I was reviewing some older notes of mine from the event. This one stood out at the time and still does:
Meghan Wiessner and Nathan Ensmenger talked about FORPLAN, a large linear programming model the US forestry service used to generate forest use plans. They both noted its complexity and its shortcomings, how it did not take account of local knowledge and otherwise oversimplified forestry, and how it was divisive.
If you've never come across FORPLAN I recommend looking it up (this is good if you're OK with technical reports). It went into use in late 1979 and was controversial from the beginning. It relied on (then) largescale linear programming methods to determine how to manage the US's forests. Like so many efforts before and since, it set aside expert and/or local knowledge of the domain, made horrendous miscalculations, yet was treated as if it were making divine proclamations that must be followed. One of the early critics of it started a libertarian blog called the Antiplanner to argue against government land-use planning.

#FORPLAN #planning #ForestManagement #AI #LinearProgramming

Jasper Jan 7

Its always sad to see another hillside fall victim to clearcutting, but this lone feller-buncher doing battle with the dark woods early this morning certainly made for a compelling photograph. (swipe for full photo)

#forestry #forestmanagement #logging #clearcutting #fellerbuncher #darkforest #winter

Zeke 🇨🇦Nov 27

How do we prop up the soft wood lumber industry when there are no more 2x4s ?
#ForestManagement
Did you know that the fastest growth of “harvesting” in #BritishColumbia is taking place right now in our last stands of #OldGrowthForests ?
A lot of these stands are WITHIN deferred logging areas as laid out in the now 5 year old 14 Recommendations to the Forest Practices Code in BC. We simply can’t allow this to happen any longer.
#SaveOurOldGrowthForests
#StopRawLogExports
#StopDraxx Draxx wood pellet industry is harvesting old growth to turn into wood pellets! This is absolutely horrifying. Unacceptable!

Xavier Mareca Nov 13

This is a wonderful example of technology serving nature.The #DigiForest project, involving @oxfordrobots and partners across Europe, is using a combination of ground robots and aerial drones to create detailed maps of forests.

This approach allows for monitoring that is seven times faster than traditional methods, which can significantly improve forest management and conservation efforts.

#ForestManagement #TechForGood #Robotics #Drones #Sustainability #Environment