Pro Silva Ireland’s UK counterpart the Continuous Cover Forestry Group will host a free webinar on Thursday March 24th on freestyle silviculture as practiced in Slovenia . Professor Jurij Diaci will deliver a 30 minute presentation on the topic and explain how forest development types are used to implement CCF. This will be followed by a question and answer session for participants.
Professor Jurij Diaci is head of the Department of Silviculture at the Department of Forestry, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Ljubljana and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He gained practical experience in silviculture while working in the Nazarje mountain region in the Savinja Alps.
His research work is in the field of forest ecology and silviculture, with emphasis on old-growth forests and uneven-aged mixed managed forests. He is interested in forest response and adaptation to climate change, as well as the scientific basis for close-to-nature, ecological forestry. He has led more than 20 national research projects, participated in several international projects (e.g., BEAR, NATMAN, LISS, ONEforest), and is fascinated with networking science and practice.
He has written and edited several books and published more than 80 scientific articles. He has served as a board member of the international association Pro Silva and is chairman of the board of the Pahernik Foundation, which manages 630 hectares of forest that has been managed in a close-to-nature approach for more than 100 years.
To register, follow the link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/continuouscoverforestrygroup/647310#
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