New EFFORTE newsletter (issue 2(/2018) is finally out! The issue focusses on silviculture and silvicultural operations, and also some preliminary results and discussions from the latest project meeting in Zürich are presented. Get also your calendar ready and mark the dates of EFFORTE final seminar to it – welcome to Helsinki on 17-19 June 2019! More information will be shared on the website during the spring. Click here to see …
EFFORTE project group held a meeting at Agroscope research institute in Zürich, Switzerland on November 2018. Year 2019 will be the final year for the project, as it approaches its end on August. Next year will be also a very busy one, since most of the results are to come and there is a lot to communicate – both to academia and to industry. At the meeting all work packages …
Vigorous regrowth of deciduous stump sprouts after early pre-commercial thinning (PCT) causes a need of later pre-commercial thinning in order to ensure better growing conditions for more valuable coniferous trees. Uprooting improves efficiency of young stand management by preventing sprouting and minimizing the number of repeated operations. Dilemma of repeated cutting in young stand management Traditionally young stand management is done motor-manually by clearing saw in two phases: early PCT …