Staatsbetrieb Sachsenforst, Kompetenzzentrum für Wald und Forstwirtschaft

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Staatsbetrieb Sachsenforst, Competence Centre for Wood and Forestry

Field of main application:
- The Competence Centre for Wood and Forestry is the specialist department within the State Enterprise Sachsenforst responsible for developing a basis for informed decision-making.
- Main working fields are departmental research on forestry, permanent forestryrelated environmental monitoring, inventories of soil and forest condition and periodical operational planning for state-owned forests.
- Functional strategies and recommendations for specific regions are developed in direct cooperation with the State Enterprise’s direction to ensure that forestry remains sustainable under changing environmental conditions.

Research activities:
- Characterising basic local conditions for forest management
- Assessment, preservation and economic development of forestry-related genetic resources,
- Integrated forest protection, especially controlling of functional risks from biotic and abiotic stressors,
- Potentials of objective- and location-based forest growth control,
- application of remote sensing and GIS as a part of forest management

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