Projects

In order to draw attention to the importance of the forest in protecting against natural hazards and to provide information about the challenges, a protective forest nature trail was built along the "Nikoloweg" in the municipality of Steinbach am Attersee (Weißenbach district).

As part of the local project "Bannwald Hallstatt" of the Torrent and Avalanche Control, with the aim of improving and sustainably securing the protective effect of the protective forest above the village, four educational signboards at easily walkable locations in the middle of the village are drawing attention to the important protective function of the forest.

With the establishment of a Protective Forest Hub at the premises of the Austrian Forest Campus in Traunkirchen, a large number of different project is to be offered. The issue of protective forests is to be pushed in the framework of training programs, information as well as knowledge transfer.

The establishment of a model catchment area for science and research is another important milestone in the action programme "Forests protect us!". Located in close proximity to the Protective Forest Hub at Traunkirchen, the catchment area of the Rindbach in the municipality of Ebensee/Upper Austria was chosen for this purpose.

Due to storms, forest fires, avalanches or intensive harmful organisms, large-scale deforestation and tree losses are occurring more and more frequently. When such disturbances occur in protective forests, the protective function is greatly reduced or lost entirely. Rapid reforestation is particularly important here to prevent erosion, rockfall or other gravitational mass movements.