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Quarter-oriented regeneration of beech stands (ForestPress)

The intention of this book is to present a forest regeneration concept based on forest typology and provide its economic and ecological evaluation. We observed that moist sites often became wet and dry sites became even drier when conventional regeneration methods were applied. In both cases the regeneration process stopped. While the increased abundance of ground vegetation became the main limiting factor in the first case, lack of water and the competition from the old stand blocked the development of the seedlings in the latter.

Sports

Swiss plan to put lid on skiing (swissinfo)

Switzerland's ski industry is contemplating opening the country's first indoor ski area to encourage more young people living in urban areas to take up the sport. According to the Swiss association of mountain lift companies, the number of youngsters who know how to ski or snowboard is decreasing by about ten per cent a year.

Sports

Man all set for Amazon swim (Reuters)

By Andrei Khalip Martin Strel at Budapest Lima - Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 5 400km down the world's greatest river, defying piranhas, snakes, crocodiles and even sharks.

Research

Development of extinguishing technologies for forest fire

The aims of subprogram: surveying the domestic forest fire damages, developing the basis of forest fire extinguishing technologies with special regard to prompt intervention equipments. We are committed to planning and developing this prompt intervention equipments and put it into practice what could result an effective appliance for the forest companies in extinguishment of forest fires.

Traditions

Brief History of UBC Forestry

The history of the Faculty of Forestry at UBC is unique. Professors, staff, and fellow Forestry alumni are very proud of the achievements and contributions, thay have all made over the years.

Tourists

Eco tourism around Tarnovo (RadioBulgaria)

Written by Veneta Nickolova There is definitely a place in nature as if taken out of a fairy tale. It is not far from the Medieval Bulgarian capital Veliko Tarnovo and never fails to fascinate nature lovers, willing to participate in eco-tourism - a trend currently gaining popularity in this country. That is the canyon of the river Negovanka, whose meanders flow at the foot of the steep cliffs, which house various rare species of birds. There are also waterfalls and picturesque rock formations.

Traditions

How were our forests created?

History of Forestry History of forestry is the story of the forest, man and society in Hungary the story began with the formation of forests, just like anywhere else. Forests of the Carpathian Basin have been formed gradually in the last 12-10 thousand years, parallel to the warming of the climate following the late Würm-period of the ice-age that iced Northern and Central-Europe in the Quaternary age of the Earth. According to reconstruction of botanists and natural geographic scientists 5 thousand years ago the majority of the Carpathian Basin was covered with forests.

Who is who?

Dr. Bela Sivak (1935 - 2005)

In Memory of Dr. Bela Sivak 1935 - 2005 Bela was born on May 26, 1935, in Panyok, (NE. Hungary) close to the southern border of the present Slovakian Republic. His father was a poor farmer on 10 acres of rolling agricultural land. In comparison, prince Eszterhazy, a Hungarian aristocrat owned 400.000 acres (this name might be familiar, after the name of a small settlement in Southern Saskatchewan). My late Father-in-Law, an Alberta farmer, used to say that a family needs at least ? section of land to lead a decent life.

Traditions

The Foresters Celebration Song (Nordic)

Akademiska Sångforeningen A sample of traditional Nordic vocal celebration of the forest and of drinking. This Finnish song "The Foresters Drinking Song" - is sung by the male choir from the album " The melody is originally a german folk song with the title "We're hunting through the woods". Käy metsolan halki nyt retkemme tie,se kunnaalla kulkee, se laaksohon vie.Nyt edespäin vaan, nyt edespäin vaan,meit estele virta, ei kuohuvakaan.Nyt veikkonen juo! (Nyt juo!)Nyt veikkonen juo! (Nyt juo!)Nyt veikkonen juo! (Nyt juo!)Ain' eläköön metsä, ja reimun vuo.Ain' eläköön metsä, ja reimun vuo. THE FORESTERS CELEBRATION SONG And some Hungarian songs.

Education

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY

Having gone a long road of many changes the present University of West Hungary Seated in Sopron, started functioning with seven faculties from January 1st 2000 as a merger of former Sopron University, Benedek Elek College of Pedagogy, Mosonmagyaróvár Faculty of Agriculture of Pannon University of Agriculture and that of Apáczai Csere János Teacher Training College.

Who is who?

Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)

G. Pinchot born Aug. 11, 1865, Simsbury, Conn., U.S. died Oct. 4, 1946, New York, N.Y. U.S. forestry and conservation pioneer.

Education

Faculty of College of Geoinformatics

1-3 Pirosalma street Székesfehérvár 8000 Tel.:00-36-22/516-520; geo@geo.info.hu This faculty of the university teaches land surveyor engineering, land manager engineering and real estate and property registration as its fundamental training and offers specialisation courses in UNIGIS spatial information science, land managing information science, land property cadastral specialisation and structural geodesy. It also has staff development trainings for clerks, administrators, technicians and managers for property registration, digital mapping and spatial information science and spatial information science management taught by the faculty as OKJ courses. Furthermore, property estimators and executives can have postgraduate courses and courses in decision preparation to spatial informatical tasks and spatial informatical administration are also available. The faculty is the Hungarian centre of UNIGIS international distance learning.

Education

Faculty of Forestry of the University of West Hungary

5 Ady Endre street Sopron 9400 Tel.:00-36-99/518-207; Fax:00-36-99/329-808 fdoffice@emk.nyme.hu The faculty educates forestry, environment engineering and environmental sciences for university level degree (5 years study time), teaches nature protection on full time courses for college degree (3 years study time) and wildlife managers on full time as well as correspondence courses for college degrees. Furthermore, the faculty offers courses for training experts at environmental management, forest plants protection and a postgraguate course in nature protection. Besides Sopron, Csíkszereda (Transsylvania) is a training centre of correspondence courses for forestry engineers and wildlife managers.

Research

Forests and development: the EC approach

1) OBJECTIVE To define the objectives of the European Community with regard to cooperation on the development of forestry, to identify areas where dialogue and assistance are required and set out the action planned to realise the objectives, taking into account the experience gained in recent years.

Sports

XII EFOL Ventspils, Latvia (ForestPress)

European Foresters Orienteering Championship 11-16 July 2005 Ventspils, Latvia We would like to thank all the foresters who believed the possibility of EFOL in Latvia in 1994 and through their participance have studied the forestry in different European countries.

Traditions

The maple leaf (ForestPress)

Well before the coming of the first European settlers, Canada's aboriginal peoples had discovered the food properties of maple sap, which they gathered every spring. According to many historians, the maple leaf began to serve as a Canadian symbol as early as 1700. Following are some examples of how the maple leaf grew in public consciousness as a symbol of our country until it finally became official on February 15, 1965, as an integral component of the national flag of Canada.

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