Forest experts demanding change in forest management -
https://wilderness-society.org/...nism-in-the-german-forest-crisis-and-demand-end-of-wood-factories/
A forest crisis not only driven by climate change.
In the light of the current forest crisis in Germany, a group of forest experts, forest practitioners, forest owners and representatives of environmental associations and NGO demand to turn away from conventional forestry in an open letter to the German Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner.
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forests across Europe, more specifically in Germany, expose the complex interrelated problems of climate change and management and should force us to radically rethink our current and future strategies. Ecosystem-based adaptive management principles that practice half for nature forestry, coupled with revised measures of valuing forests are essential prerequisites to safeguarding the vital ecology and services of our forests for everyone, for ever.
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Climate change is progressing, and this, without a doubt, has massive impacts on all terrestrial ecosystems, including forests. To pretend that the last two years of drought alone caused the disaster is too cheap. On closer inspection, the disaster is also the result of decades of a forestry focused on conifers – in a country that was once naturally dominated by mixed deciduous forests. People do not like to admit that for more than 200 years they have relied on the wrong species of commercial tree (spruce) and have also created artificial, ecologically highly unstable and thus high-risk forest ecosystems. A whole branch of business has become dependent on coniferous wood. And now the German coniferous timber industry is on the verge of bankruptcy.
It would only have been honest and also a sign of political greatness if you and the forestry ministers in Moritzburg had declared: Yes, our forestry industry has made mistakes in the past, and yes, we are ready for a relentless analysis that takes into account not only purely silvicultural, but also forest-ecological aspects. Instead, you have confined yourselves to pre-stamped excuses that are already familiar to everyone and that lack any self-critical reflection.