Skid trails revisited
Logging roads and skid trails can take up a considerable part of a forest stand. Meanwhile, comprehensive research addresses reducing the impact of heavy forest machinery on forest soils.
Logging roads and skid trails can take up a considerable part of a forest stand. Meanwhile, comprehensive research addresses reducing the impact of heavy forest machinery on forest soils.
Over the past ten years, three research projects („Forschungs- und Entwicklungs-Projekt“) have aimed to record the implementation status of the MAB zoning concept in German biosphere reserves and to develop recommendations for designation, management and further development.
Landespflege Freiburg (Landscape Research Freiburg) and the Program for Restoration of Lakes in the Alpine Forehills of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (Southwestern Germany) cooperate in the strategic development of an ecological transformation of the agricultural sector.
Pastures of high biodiversity value are a characteristic feature of the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve. The ecological conditions of the pastures evolved under traditional grazing regimes (so-called Allmende), where livestock of a municipality was commonly grazed.
Following a two-year development phase, a support program for agroforestry systems is about to be implemented in the national support strategy of Luxembourg. The program was developed and negotiated by the Consulting Institute Landespflege Freiburg in cooperation with experts from the Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology at the Albert-Ludwigs University, the administration in charge, and stakeholders in Luxembourg.
The Haff Réimech is an exceptionally valuable wetland area in Luxembourg. For a long time, the area on the Moselle was used for the intensive extraction of gravel and sand. After intensive sand and gravel extraction ceased, the gravel pits filled with groundwater.
Almost two decades ago, a series of river engineering measures were carried out within the framework of the INTERREG project "Revitalisation of the Taubergießen".
Under the umbrella of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Planetary Health, the Germen Environmental Foundation (DBU) is currently funding different projects that focus on human-ecosystem interactions and their consequences for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services, but also on consequences for human health.
Commissioned by the national administration for nature conservation of Luxembourg, Landespflege Freiburg is developing a national programme to support the implementation of agroforestry systems in agricultural landscapes of Luxembourg
Moors remaining in western European landscapes are habitats of high nature conservation value. Moors are abundant in the alpine foothills of southern Germany. However, most of the moor habitats have been degraded through drainage in the course of former peat exploi- tation and human land use activities.
Centuries of water management and canalisation lead to fundamental changes of the characteristics of the River Rhine. As a result, former floodplains fell dry, and meanders and tributaries have been cut off from the main stream.
The report on the first interim evaluation by the scientific expert committee is available.
As every year, experienced employees of the Landespflege support the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wanderfalkenschutz (AGW) in the ringing of eagle owls and peregrine falcons.
Is it possible to reconstruct grazing effects on common range lands based on formerly recorded life stock numbers and fertilization procedures? A joint project of Landespflege Freiburg and the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve aims on establishing a knowledge and information base in order to support evidence based management strategies for so called ‚Allmenden‘.
Werner Konold and Bern Seitz edited a book that introduces the characteristics of the Biosphere Reserve newly established in the Southern Black Forest Region.
Biodiversity loss is continously progressing in agricultural landscapes nearly all over Europe. In order to counteract this process, the Landespflege Freiburg is currently developing evidence based decision making and adaptive management systems.
Landespflege Freiburg is advising the client Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtreinigung Freiburg GmbH (ASF) on the establishment of protected acidophilous grassland at the Eichelbuck landfill site.
Together with scientists from several Institutions around Freiburg, Germany, Thomas Kaphegyi and Werner Konold co-authored a section of a new world series volume published by the International Union of Forest Research (IUFRO).
With this project, we explore and document historic transport techniques for timber formerly applied in the Black Forest Region.
The ecological status of German rivers and wetlands is still deficient. The management of agricultural landscapes adjacent to waters can considerably affect the ecology of rivers, lakes and wetlands, and the land use pressure on riparian areas is permanently increasing (see e.g. Kaphegyi et al. 2015).