Thematic days

NordGen Forest thematic days are usually organized twice a year. Current topics are discussed with the help of invited speakers. Hosting of the events circulates between the Nordic countries.

18 March 2010 in Vantaa, Finland, "Damages at the nursery and young forests" was discussed. Download the programme here . Presentations (in Finnish or English):

Katri Himanen: Kuusen siementen sienet (Fungal diseases of Norway spruce)
Juha Kaitera et al.: Kuusen käpyruosteet (Norway spruce cone rusts)
Eevamaria Harala: Hyönteistuholaiset kuusen siemenviljelmillä (Insect damages in seed orchards)
Olle Rosenberg og Jan Weslien: Pest management of cone and seed insects in Norway spruce seed orchards in Sweden
Otso Huitu: Myyrien aiheuttamat taimituhot (Vole damages at the nurseries and in young forests)
Raija-Liisa Petäistö: Kuusen sienitautien torjunnan ajoittaminen taimitarhalla (Timing of control of fungal diseases of Norway spruce at the nursery)

Climate change and plantations in forest and landscape" was the topic for our arrangement 22 October 2009 at Tuse Næs, Denmark. You'll find the programme here , and presentations can be downloaded from below:

Bjerne Ditlevsen: Valg af plantemateriale til en usikker fremtid
Per Hilbert: Praktisk plantning i skov og på landbrugsjord, økonomi og tilskud
Bo Karlsson: Skogsbruket som praktisk klimatförvaltare
Erik D. Kjær m.fl.: Vil de danske skov- og buskarter forblive tilpassede?
Michael Stoltze: Danmarks skove - en vision i en krisetid

The thematic day "Increased forest production - new customer requirements, new seedlings, new techniques?" was arranged in Stockholm 12 March 2009, with around 50 Nordic participants. A summary of the presentations and discussions (in Swedish) is found here .

You can also download presentations as pdf files:

Bo Karlsson: Tydliga signaler om ökad skogsproduktion - Varför og hur?
Marianne Eriksson: Mer kunskap til plantkunden - Nya kundkrav?
K-A Högberg: Ny teknik: somatisk embryogenes& sticklingar - När kommer dom?
Lars Graudal: Alternative tree species, climate change and biofuels from a Danish perspective
Juha Hakkarainen: Increased wood production: Finnish policy measures

Previous thematic days:

1 October 2008, Tammerfors, Finland. Seeds - today and tomorrow . Download programme .

12 mars 2008, Stockholm. Optimized collection of seeds . Download protocol .

Presentations as pdf files:

Dag Lindgren: Genetiske aspekter inkl. val av träd och bestånd
Ulfstand Wennström: Aktuella fröbehov och behandlingskapacitet
Claes Olsson: Speciella förutsättningar för lövinsamling
Hans Christian Brede and Øyvind M Edvardsen: Frøforsyning og frøbruk i Norge
Jouko Paija: Forest seed collection in Finland
Bo Nilsson: Organisering av fröinsamling
Olle Rosenberg: Skadegörare på kott och frö
Lennart Ackzell: Lagar, regler och marknad

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