Alptrees - Interreg Alpine Space

Forester Jörg Heumader was part of the team in the Tirolean Alps that already experimented with seedling of non native tree species back in the 1970s. His unit was implementing protection measures for torrents, avalanches and rockfalls and faced lacking tree diversity in high altitudes. As a student he got inspired by his professors to look far across the Atlantic to find more diverse genetic material in the golden West. The Rocky Mountain region should have some surprises in store, that should change the Tyrolean region to this day.
Please enjoy the whole article:
http://www.non-native-trees.eu/index.php/news

News - Non Native Trees by Petra Meisel This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Austrian Research Centre for Forests

Today 1pm the topic of ALPTREES will be featured in Austria's Television News! Begins at 15:20 - More to come!

ZIB 13:00 vom 04.08.2022 um 13:00 Uhr China startet Manöver vor Taiwan | Atomverhandlungen gehen weiter | Suizid entfacht Debatte um Hass im Netz

Great News! The first ALPTREES Handbooks in English and German, have been delivered today! Our colleague Anja Bindewald from the Forest Research Institute in Freiburg is one of the first partners to hold the REAL books in her hands.
Enjoy reading, Anja!

Non-native tree species in Swiss Forests: More and more accepted by forest practitioners

Thomas Wohlgemuth, our colleague from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forests is member of the forest dynamics research unit in Switzerland. During our Trento conference May 3rd, he gave is insightful talk about the acceptance of NNTs in Switzerland:

Switzerland has a long tradition of close-to-nature forestry, resulting in a comparatively low rate of non-native trees of less than one percent nationwide. Based on experiences and research regarding extreme events in the frame of climate change, practitioners have started to increasingly admix Douglas fir and other tree species in lowland forests. In addition, in the frame of an ongoing test plantation project, both native and non-native trees are grown at 60 different locations spread nationwide in various habitats. This long-term project will evolve to an important decision support tool for the next decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgKQnGvlv4

ALPTREES Conference Trento - 4 - Thomas Wohlgemuth Non-natives in Swiss forests: more and more accepted by forest practitioners | Thomas Wohlgemuth - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Res...