Join a training course
Are you interested in Riparian forests, Drainage systems or Beaver dams? Then you are very welcome to a one-day training course arranged in Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland during 2018!
The courses are especially interesting for forest enterprises, forest owners, entrepreneurs, hunters and journalists. You will learn about:
- New maps showing wet areas in the forest, useful e.g. for forest machines
- An application for smartphones about maintenance of drainage systems
- The “Blue targeting” tool, classifying the riparian forests
- A “Beaver tool”, classifying beaver dams
- And more
The training courses are held mainly outdoors, at demonstration areas established within the WAMBAF project.
The aim of the courses is to demonstrate the use of water protection methods and planning tools in management of riparian forest, drainage systems and beaver dams to avoid leaching of nutrients and methyl mercury to streams, lakes and the sea.
They will be held in the project area during the period of June-November. Below is a list of the planned training courses. Some have already been held, like the one in Sundsvall, Sweden in May, where the beaver demo area was presented. There, the beaver tool developed in the project, was tested by beaver experts from all over the world.
| Country | Topic | Location | Time |
| Finland | Drainage and riparian zones | Oulu Vengasoja | September |
| Finland | Drainage and riparian zones | Vengasoja | September |
| Finland | Drainage and riparian zones | Vengasoja | September |
| Finland | Drainage and water protection | North Carelia | September 13th |
| Finland | Riparian forests | Central Finland, Jyväskylä | August 30th |
| Latvia | Drainage | Kalsnava | August |
| Latvia | Beaver management | Kalsnava | September |
| Latvia | Beaver management | Kalsnava | September |
| Lithuania | Beaver management | Plateliai | October/ November |
| Lithuania | Beaver management | Kretinga | October/ November |
| Lithuania | Beaver and Riparian forests | Plateliai | October/ November |
| Lithuania | Beaver and Riparian forests | Kretinga | October/ November |
| Lithuania | Beaver and Drainage system | Plateliai | October/ November Lithuania |
| Lithuania | Beaver + Drainage system | Kretinga | October/ November |
| Sweden | Beaver | Torringen/Sundsvall | October 3rd |
| Sweden | Drainage Systems | Osby | October 23rd |
| Sweden | Riparian Forests and Buffer Zones | Osby | October 25th |
Please contact daniel.thorell@skogsstyrelsen.se or linnea.jagrud@skogsstyrelsen.se for more information.
Our website will be updated regularly with time and place for all training courses.