Programme - DRAFT -
What to expect from two weeks of Natural Forest Summer School
09:00 – 09:40
Welcome to Lübeck by Senator Ludger Hinsen
Welcoming speech from the Natural Forest Academy by Dr. Torsten Welle
Welcoming speech from the Frankfurt Zoological Society by Manuel Schweiger
Presentation of the European Natural Forest Conservation (programme and modules) Summer School by Dr. Torsten Welle and Yvonne Bohr
09:40 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45
Key-note speech by Prof. Dr. Hannes Knapp, University Greifswald, Michael-Succow-Foundation
11:45 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 16:00
Get-together and team buliding with Niels Andersen
19:00
Evening event (boat trip) in and arround Lübeck
09:00 – 12:00
Basics and advanced studies in natural forest ecology
Speakers to be announced
- Natural forests (characteristics and potentials)
- State of European forests; size of remaining Natural forests and its implication
- Resilience and benefits of Natural forests ecosystems (biodiversity, water storage capacity, soil conditions, carbon storage potential)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:45
Natural forests and biodiversity
Speakers to be announced
14:00 – 16:00
Workshop
- Cartography
- Forest mapping
- Insight into the methods used in the Sabatini et al. 2018 paper
08:00 – 17:00
Field trip to natural forest Heilige Hallen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
with Prof. Dr. Pierre Ibisch, University Eberswalde (FNEE)
transfer of theory from day 2:
- Natural forests (characteristics and potentials, size)
- Resilience and benefits of Natural forests ecosystems (biodiversity, water storage capacity, soil conditions, carbon storage potential)
- Buffer condition between conservation areas and managed areas
08:00 – 17:00
Field trip to Müritz National Park
with Dr. Sven Rannow, National Park Authority
- ecology of Müritz Nationalpark forest habitat types
- nature conservation approach
- Nationalpark management tasks
- challenges and solutions
- benefits for the Müritz region
09:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 16:00
The conservation of larger scale natural and old-growth or primary forest protected areas by Michael Brombacher, Head of Europe Dept. Frankfurt Zoological Society
Project examples from the field – the European dimension:
- challenges and solutions
- Conflicts and their management in the context of forest protected areas
08:00 – 17:00
The conservation of larger scale natural and old-growth or primary forest protected areas
by Dr. Andreas von Heßberg, Bay-CEER, University Bayreuth
- overview disturbance ecology; handling and challenges of/with natural disturbances (bark beetle, fire, storms…)
and by Maike Bartels and Manuel Engelbauer, both Frankfurt Zoological Society
- Regional and social economic benefit
- surveying the acceptance of protected areas
09:00 – 12:00
Close-to-nature forest management
by Prof. Sebastiaan Luyssaert VU Amsterdam
- Theory (transfer of findings from forest ecology into forest management)
- Overview on common forest management practices
13:00 – 16:00
Close-to-nature forest management
by Knut Sturm, Head of Lübeck Forest
- The Lübeck model: integrative process protection and other examples (Göttingen) of close-to-nature forestry
- comparison and discussion
08:00 – 18:00
Close-to-nature forest management
by Knut Sturm, Head of Lübeck Forest and others Practitioners from Germany and Sweden
Learning from reference areas and transfer to management
- close-to-nature and conventional silviculture
- Forest restructuring in terms of naturalness and climate change
- Mire renaturation/water regime
- Soil profiles in the pine areas
- Hardwood felling
- Marketing heavy timber
- Backroads
08:30 – 12:00
Close-to-nature forest management
by Knut Sturm, Head of Lübeck Forest and Ecki Kroppla, Forester, Jörg Baeskow, Forester and Mikael Karlsson, Ecoforestry Foundation
Practical Part/Field trip Stadtwald Lübeck
- Handling of disturbance areas (wind & beetles)
- Forest restructuring
- Hunting Management
- Active felling (spruce)
1/2 day off – preparation for exam
10:00 – 12:00
Final exam
14:00-17:00
17:30 – 19:00
19:00 – 21:00
Ride to Treuenbrietzen, Brandenburg
The value of wilderness
by Manuel Schweiger, Frankfurt Zoological Society and Dr. Christina Pinsdorf, University Bonn
- reasons for preserving wilderness (beyond ecology)
- ethical responsibilities
- perception of wilderness (wilderness character narrative)
- international dimension
Closing event – BBQ
08:00 – 17:00
Field trip to Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg
by to be announeced
Dealing with damaged areas after forest fire
- Discussion of different concepts for reforestation
- Wildlife Management
- Wilderness area on former military training area
Good bye