Storm damaged forests (Stodafor)
Abstract
Several European countries have been affected by storms in December 1999. The wind-fallen trees represent in some regions several times the average annual harvested volume. A European network will gather and summarise the different experiments and their results (successful or not) in a practical technical guide for forest and wood industry managers. The main objective of this project is to contribute to answer the first two questions adressed to foresters and wood industry managers facing storm damaged forest: - How to harvest the wind fallen or broken trees in safe economic and ecological ways, to prevent fungus or insect diseases and fire risks and allow for forest restoration ? - How to keep the wood quality to save the wood industry supply and the foresters incomes through efficient log storage and conservation methods ? This objective will be achieved by: - producing, via the exploitation of all relevant publications, patents or industrial experiences, a survey of the practical available methods and their conditions of use. - identifying the main unsolved questions. - making a list and following up the ongoing experiments in the different European countries affected by the December 1999 storm. - suggesting additional experiments to cover as many species and conditions as possible. - Writing a practical technical guide brought up-to-date from the initial survey with the followed up and validated experiment results. - Contributing to the dissemination of the up-to-date available efficient and safe methods by a specific web site dedicated to the project, a final technical seminar for both forest and industrial users, scientists and Forest Services/administration, and the diffusion of the technical guide by each partner in its own country.
Storm damage
Publikationen
Project staff
Christiane Tartarotti
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Christiane Tartarotti
Project Leader
01.07.2001 - 31.03.2005
BOKU partners
External partners
Centre Technique du Bois et de l´Ameublement
none
coordinator
Norwegian Forest Research Institute
Mr. Fretheim
partner
Centro Biomassa para Energia
Mr. Patrao
partner
Federal Research Center of Forestry and Forest Products
Mr. Mucha
partner
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Mr. Delmarco
partner
Swiss Fereal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
Mr. Sell
partner
Forskningscentret for Skov & Landskab
Mr. Koch
partner
Association Forèt-Cellulose
Mr. Sturm
partner
Building Research Establishment LTd
Mr. Bravery
partner
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Mr. März
partner
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Mr. Wakeham
partner
Ministerium Ländlicher Raum Baden-wuerttemberg
none
partner
University of Madrid, Institute for Transport Studies
Mr. Uceda
partner
University of Portmouth
Mr. Ace
partner
Dresden University of Technology, Institut für Geotechnik
Mr. Post
partner
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Unit of Forestry, Department of Economics and Natural Resources
none
partner