In these two short movies, you can observe how planting and weeding looks like in Finland. In many countries, such forest activities are performed manualy, and probably many forest workers would like to have suchContinue reading
Category: International Forestry
Forest stands volume estimation by using Finnish Multi-Source National Forest Inventory
During my internship at European Forest Institute in Finland I had a chance to become familiar with Finnish method of forest stands volume estimation. The Finnish way of forest inventory was quite innovative in relationContinue reading
Why does New Zealand export sawn timber and logs to different markets?
In this post, Ivan Luketina is presenting the results of his research work. He is answering very important question, i.e. why does New Zealand export sawn timber and logs to different markets? If you want toContinue reading
Western Forest Economists meeting
Two weeks ago, I had a pleasure to participate in Western Forest Economists meeting, which was held in Fort Collins, in Colorado (USA). I would like to describe shortly what I have seen and experiencedContinue reading
Narco-deforestation : what is it and why forests are unseen victim of drugs?
One of the unseen victims of cocaine and marihuana uses are forests. There is even a term created to name the impact of drugs on forests and it is called “narco-deforestation”. It happens not only inContinue reading
There ain’t no free lunch in forestry – an interview with Bob Izlar
During the 2017 Timberland Investment Conference, I interviewed Mr. Bob Izlar, the Director of University of Georgia (UGA) Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business. Mr. Izlar tell us more about Forest Business Program atContinue reading
Do you know what is the oldest and rarest tree in the world? You never find out!
Few weeks ago, one of our readers has sent us an interesting mail, where he described his recent discovery about Wollemi Pine- the oldest and rarest tree in the world. Instead of looking for such aContinue reading
The forest sector in Tanzania
Tanzania (Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar) is among the richest countries in terms of biodiversity and other natural resources. In this post, Greyson Z. Nyamoga tell us more about forest sector in Tanzania. If you areContinue reading
BREXIT, Common Forest Policy in Europe and “empty formulas” – an interview with prof. Max Krott
This time, I have interviewed professor Max Krott from University of Göttingen (Germany). We have discussed issues such as Brexit, Common Forest Policy in Europe or the application of forest policy models.
Almond shell vs. Wood pellet
Since many years, there were tries to value a subproduct of almond industry, which constitutes 75% of total almond biomass volume. Crashed and filtered almond shells, that we talk in this post about, surprisingly have similarContinue reading