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State Enterprise for Forest and Timber North Rhine-Westphalia
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Education and Research Forestry Office
- Focal task silviculture and forest seed
- Regional Forestry Hochstift
- Focal task forest conservation
- Regional Forestry Office Siegen-Wittgenstein
- Research Centre for hunting and prevention of damage caused by game
- Regional forestry office Upper Sauerland
- Department of timber industry, research, climate
- National Park Forest Office Eifel
Coordinated projects
- AVATAR: Advancing Virtual Aptitude through TActo-cognitive Response systems, subproject 3: Implementing a digital coach prototype and assessing its potential
- Climate plastic tree species: Plant and documentation of the growth and growth of climatic, foreign tree species: Corylus colurna, Cedrus libani, Cedrus atlantica
- Collaborative Project: Smart Wood Supply Chain Management
- Comparison cultivation bare root plants with container plants (from Quickpot-, Jiffy- and LIECO container)
- Digital site classification for the North Rhine-Westphalian Lowland
- Documentation of the development of oak death in the Dämmerwald by means of infrared aerial images.
- Establishment of a standard method for investigating genetic and specific adaptive differentiation of provenances using the example of the shrub species Prunus spinosa and Corylus avellana - subproject of WuH NRW for vegetative cultivation and delivery of hazelnut plants
- Establishment of a standard method for the genetically sustainable harvesting of forest reproductive material in approved seed stocks - Subproject of WuH NRW for the selection and characterization of the cherry and oak stocks within North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the cultivation of the cherry plants for all project partners
- Forest conversion in a Changing Climate: Beech preseeding under unstable spruce monocultures
- Improvement of climate protection services of managed forests by collaborative management of small and micro private forests in North Rhine–Westphalia
- Natural reforestation on storm-damaged areas with special consideration of a site-appropriate tree species combination in climate change and the possibilities of additional energy wood production
- Promoting oak natural regeneration
- Promotion of mixed species rowan and their contribution to ecology and stabilization of site-specific spruce stands (Sorbus aucuparia - rowanberry - mountain-ash)
- Resilience in oakstands
- Smart paths for forest trails
- Sustainable Bioenergy: Research and innovation for cooperative supply chains of sustainably generated and efficiently used dendromass
- Wild ecological monitoring in the Rureifel
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Altered productivity and carbon sequestration of German forests in the face of climate change: (i) model development with data sets of soil inventory (BZE) and European Level I monitoring plots and (ii) model applications on an expanded dataset of the National Forest Inventory (BWI) - WP-KS-KW. Subproject 6
- Conversion of pure spruce stands by beech seed
- Coppice Approx edge design and promotion of the leaves for use of timber species common oak, sessile oak and hornbeam and coniferous trees, as well as precious as rare wild service tree, juniper or yew
- Development of the FFH (Flora-Fauna-Habitat) habitat type (LRT) Luzulo beech forest in low mountains taking into account the specific territorial conditions. Monitoring project FFH area Schanze
- Establish a standard method for genetically sustainable harvest of forest reproductive material in approved seed crops
- Establishing a standard method for studying the genetic and adaptive differentiation of specific origins of the example of the shrub species, and Prunus spinosa, Corylus avellana
- Foreign concept NRW - Documentation and evaluation of foreign tree species in North Rhine-Westphalia in climate change with special reference of silvicultural, use-oriented and nature Conservation relevant aspects
- Forestry Scientific investigation to national and international community forests under the working title: From the relic for future model? The renaissance of community forests.
- Investigation on the use of natural forest as reference areas
- Investigation to the development of the digital site classification
- Natural reforestration in storm damaged areas with special reference to locally adapted tree species composition in a changing climate and the potential for additional energy wood production
- Study of the installation of areas with new types of tree species tolaerant to climate change
- Terra preta fertilizer trial
Involved in research projects
- Cross-Boundary wild boar - From the landscape to pathogens: an ecological case study in the European wild boar
- The Virtual Forest - Development of modern processes for an integrated large-scale forest information system and the efficient technological production in forest economy for purposeful raw material mobilisation and provision for timber trade and industry
Contact
State Enterprise for Forest and Timber North Rhine-Westphalia
Albrecht-Thaer-Str. 34
48147 Münster
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)251 91797-0
Fax: +49 (0)251 91797-100
Email: poststelle(@)wald-und-holz.nrw.de