Water Management in Baltic Forests - Tool box (Q4299112)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Water Management in Baltic Forests - Tool box |
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830,000.0 Euro
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1,059,125.0 Euro
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78.37 percent
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1 August 2019
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31 July 2021
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Skogsstyrelsen
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57°43'11.75"N, 12°55'59.52"E
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WAMBAF Tool Box is based on results and experience from the regular project WAMBAF. WAMBAF Tool Box will implement solutions for forestry to reduce the inflow of nutrients and hazardous substances to the regional and coastal waters of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The project will deal with challenges connected to the forestry operations carried out along streams in the BSR. If forestry is not performed in the best possible way, nutrients and hazardous substances (e.g. mercury) will be exported from forests to streams, lakes and the Baltic Sea. This leads to eutrophication, decreased biodiversity and to poisonous levels of mercury in fish, that greatly exceeds what is recomended by the EU. Good water protection practices for maintenance of drainage systems and management of riparian forests and beaver populations were jointly developed and implemented in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden during the WAMBAF project. The results are improving the sustainability of forestry and the water quality in the BSR. Experience from WAMBAF and feedback from our target group show there is a need for additional work and further implementation. The aim of this project is to: - Upscale and adapt the tools, which were developed in WAMBAF - Implement the tools to a wider target group There are 5 main outputs that will be upscaled and adapted: - Machine learning wet area maps - can tell us where to drive and where not to drive in the forest, to avoid negative impact on water quality. - Beaver impact maps at catchment scale - can serve as a decision support, concerning beaver ponds on landscape level connected to water quality and climate change. - Blue Targeting - the tool will be adapted to NW Russia, and made into a digital version, for easier implementation. - Translated films - the films about forestry operations with good water consideration, will be translated to local languages to make them easier to understand. - Manual for forest drainage - will be a practical help for the machine operators to perform drainage operations. The target group is: forest enterprises, including forest machine operators, forest managers, forest planners and contractors; land owners; authorities; and hunters. The project will implement these tools to a wider audience. This will be done by training courses, by establishing one new demo area, and by arranging meetings for new target groups, e.g. policy makers and participants from Estonia and Russia. The expected change is to reach the key persons that work with forestry in the BSR. This is essential since it is the people's knowledge and changed behaviour, that will make change - leading to reduced inflow of nutrients and hazardous substances in the regional and coastal water, a lower level of eutrophication and toxic in the Baltic Sea. The project will actively contribute to this via the training courses, a new demo area and easy-to-use tools. (English)
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