Forest dieback: what can be done about it?

Hey everyone, the forest population in Germany is shrinking. What can be done to encourage new trees/plants to grow or the forest to recover? Other than planting new trees.

Maybe it's because of the dead wood in the forest, which makes things a bit more difficult.

What can be done to improve the forest population?

Thanks for your answers.

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myotis
2 years ago
  1. false assumption on your part: “Forest death” – the forest does not die, it falls (single) trees due to beef or dryness/heat from
  2. false assumption on your part: “Forestry in Germany is shrinking” – Forest is particularly protected in Germany, the forest area has been increasing steadily for many years!
  3. false assumption on your part: “Dead wood, which is difficult in the forest” – Totholz is a) quite natural and b) an ecologically important part of forest ecosystems!
  4. false assumption on your part: “What to do…” – even if some tree species have more problems (and get in the future), our forest still has a lot of its own strength, be it depressed crowns, sticks or natural rejuvenation ;o)

… of course you can

  • continue to plant trees
  • continue to explore which species and origins can cope with future environmental conditions
  • more on the grounds or Eighth supplement of mixed stocks (even if a species should fail, there are still “one to many” species left)
  • minimise damage by forest measures (stable stocks, for example, against winds, lower harvesting ages due to previous dimensioning, poorer propagation conditions for harmful organisms such as bork beetles, fewer damage by heat, for example in the beetle …)
  • more forest nature protection like eh (promote antagonists of harmful organisms, increase structural diversity and resilience)

I find it very important in the future – quite generally, not only in the forest – that (rain) keeping water much longer in the area, so that the soil water reservoirs are better filled up and the water discharge in flowing waters becomes more uniform (both avoid floods such as extreme low water)

Silo123
2 years ago

The forest as a whole does not shrink, but the forest crawls and many trees also die (especially the spruce). If they are liked, MรœSSEN trees are replanted, it stands in all forest laws in Germany.

It would be useful to get away from spruce and all monocultures, but it is only limited. I’ll see replanted monocultures.

The dead wood in the forest does not harm, at least not to the extent that it remains..

With increasing climate change, the German forest will still be very struggling, but climate change continues.

Solenostemon
2 years ago

Leave the forest alone and no longer travel with heavy machines to restore the water storage capacity of the soil.

The forest does not shrink, it spreads more and more in rich countries because rich societies are no longer dependent on agriculture and forestry as poorer societies (eg Brazil).

SirAndiusNr2
2 years ago

Dead wood is important for the ecosystem. We even need more.

Try to live climate neutral. Do not waste the environment or destroy nature.

Nomex64
2 years ago
Reply to  SirAndiusNr2

Dead wood is important for the ecosystem. We even need more.

Especially when it burns as beautiful as in the national parks in the Harz Mountains or the Elbsandstein Mountains. After this year you should reconsider the subject thoroughly.

myotis
2 years ago
Reply to  Nomex64

Central European (natural) forest societies are NO forest fire companies (as are many pine forests in the USA for example) and are extremely deadly!

What now burns are far-natural forests with too high coniferous wood…

…which now gives the option to significantly increase the share of hardwood during reforestation…

newcomer
2 years ago
Reply to  SirAndiusNr2

such experiments with dead wood or “the forest largely abandoned itself” have been carried out in the Bavarian Forest with very positive results

myotis
2 years ago

Look at the woods in (many) Natura 2000 areas – there and elsewhere there are qkm-wise deciduous forests in natural or natural tree species composition. It’s practically never burning… And the dead wood is always morseled and damper = does not burn…

By the way: with dead wood, I mean not only quantities of spruce and pine vinegar, but standing and lying strains – they can also not be ignited in needlewood… Especially if there is a plentiful undercoat of (shave) hardwood due to natural rejuvenation or, if necessary, planting…

Nomex64
2 years ago

(natural) forest companies

Where we still have natural Forest companies?

Now only to let the dead wood lie everywhere and to think that we then have a natural forest is nonsense. Some of the experiments have gone thoroughly wrong in the resin, in the Elbsandstein mountains and also in fidelity scratches. I’m not in principle against forest reconstruction. But this must not lead to excessive danger to firefighters.

A good friend, who comes from forestry science but also deals with forest fire, sees this as well. Forest of the cultural forest for years could not suddenly be completely left to itself. It’s not a change. This must be done with an eye dimension. At the moment one falls from one extreme to another. The process will last centuries.

Forest fires have always been part of this: https://www.feuerwehr-forum.de//blog.php?bid=915057&id=331 This is only easily forgotten and the data situation of over 100 years ago is also very poor.

newcomer
2 years ago

Add mixed forest or replace trees with which to manage with less water

SirAndiusNr2
2 years ago
Reply to  newcomer

Future trees are called them. Which are better suited to the future climate and their effects.

However, this is not as easy as you imagine.

newcomer
2 years ago
Reply to  SirAndiusNr2

only a proposal from many;-)

newcomer
2 years ago

thanks for the tip, by the way, I’m here at home,

https://www.oberpfaelzerwald.de/gluecksmomenten

left right front back, trees everywhere. I am in the forest dahoam

SirAndiusNr2
2 years ago

If you’re interested in the subject, I recommend a man in the forest to the YouTuber. He’s pretty funny, but he’s nice and he knows. He is through and through realist and sees the overall picture.

Just keep short and stay on the subject is difficult

newcomer
2 years ago

relatively well, the stock still goes away in the Bavarian forest. Especially the more natural areas

SirAndiusNr2
2 years ago

I just wanted to be smart ๐Ÿ’ฉ because I know how to call the trees ๐Ÿ˜œ

I am concerned about this, unfortunately I had to find out how inconsistently complicated a forest and its management can be. How little you know