Today's field trip: selecting continental site for @optforests.bsky.social project in cooperation with local forest managers and representatives of Slovenian state forests. Found a great candidate in the Kočevsko region.

Today's presentation of our colleague Marija Kravanja for an internal SFI audience at our Wednesday's colloquium. Includes @forgenius-eu.bsky.social project.

Field trip to the Te Ngae Timberlands forest nursery, which produces >2M Pinus radiata seedlings annually during IUFRO 1.01.04 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.
cc @iufro.bsky.social

Today's photos from a Timberlands forest establishment site in NZ.

Boris Rantaša presenting OPTFORESTS generic trials during the presentation titled: Close-to-nature forestry, climate change adaptation and the role of next generation provenance trials during the IUFRO Early forest establishment and restoration conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Our department head prof. dr. Hojka Kraigher presenting the crucial role of forest reproductive material tracebiltiy for the establishment of future forests at the @iufro.bsky.social 1.01.04 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Today we visited the Italian forest tree nursery Vivaio Forestale Pascul - Tarcento in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Our goal was to establish cooperation between forest reproductive material experts from both sides of SLO-ITA border.

Cooperation is set to continue in 2025.

Yesterday we made a field excursion to the Slovenian Karst and presented ongoing forest restoration, soil microbiome and tree physiology and biodiversiry projects within our department.

Weather wasn't perfect but the atmosphere was great anyway.

#tree #forest #biodiversity