LIFE FORECCAST

The main objective of the LIFE FORECCAsT project is to provide forest owners and the managers of the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut Languedoc with the means to build their management strategy, taking climate change scenarios into consideration, in order to protect territorial forest ecosystems and ensure a dynamic forestry sector in compliance with environmental, economic and social challenges

– Creation and dissemination of the FORECCAsT tool;

– 10 test description reports with details on technical and economic consequences of new forestry practices on existing forest plots;

– 12 test description reports based on experiments of new forestry practices on new forest plots;

– Creation and distribution of an action plan for crisis management;

– Development of a training module for the FORECCAsT tool and creation of a central advisory group of forest managers in the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut Languedoc with 120 to 180 participants, who will use the diagnostic tool and also encourage more widespread use (transferability); and

– Communication actions such as demonstration sessions on test sites with forest owners and managers, participation at forestry industry events and a range of obligatory communications activities (website etc.).O29