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Inland ditches created decades ago in the lowlands of Brandenburg enable the agricultural use of formerly wet land. The water retention in the ditches must now be adapted to the changing climate conditions.

Practiced since the High Middle Ages, declining with the founding of the large forest tree nurseries from the mid-19th century, then rediscovered: forest seeding – It is considered as a particularly natural, flexible and easily feasible method of forest stand establishment for all forest owners.

A digital information and dialog forum supports the forest ownership in the administrative district Elbe-Elster.

The primary objective during machine operations in forests must be to avoid negative effects on soil structure and soil function. Hence, application of small-scale forest technology, like the mini forestry tractor Moritz Fr50 seems to be promising due to its low total weight.

This project realises a win-win situation in a novel approach: The material resulting from the maintenance of dwarf shrub heaths is pressed into heather pellets: a regional product that contributes to the maintenance of a protected biotope type.

Stable mixed forest stands containing Sessile oak, Birch and Scots pine are the base of a natural forestry in south Brandenburg. In the project soil suitability climate sensibility and timber productivity of there tree species are investigated.

For geotechnical stabilisation measures on dumps, so called gentle soil-compaction-by-detonation operations are being executed. FIB is carrying out soil examinations and investigations of farmland and forests before and after the controlled blast measures.