Climate Forest - Klimatanpassning av skogsskötsel i de nordliga skogarna
Projektet arbetar med att sammanställa bakgrundsdata och inhämta ny kunskap, skapa modeller som tar hänsyn till älgskador och törskateskador i ett förändrat klimat samt identifiera riskområden för dessa skador.
Skogsstyrelsen uppdrag är att tillsammans med Skogscentralen främst arbeta med kunskaps- och erfarenhetsutbyte samt spridning av resultat.
Studieresa om skogsskadegörare
Yrkesverksamma inom skogsbruket bjuds in till att delta i en unik tvådagars studieresa i norra Sverige och Finland med fokus på klimatanpassning av skogsbruket samt hantering av skador orsakade av tallens törskatesvamp och älgbete.
Sv: Studieresa Rovaniemi och Övertorneå, 29-30 september.
Eng: Studytrip to Rovaniemi and Övertorneå, september 29-30th.
Skogsträff om törskate och älgskador
En eftermiddag i skogen där vi pratar om några utmaningar vi har i våra tallskogar. Vi ser i allt större utsträckning hur törskate och betesskador från älg påverkar skogstillväxten och framtidens virkeskvalitet. Det är komplexa frågor som bäst diskuteras där de syns mest, på plats i skogen
Sv: Eftermiddag i skogen om älgbetesskador och törskateskador i Lyckseleområdet, 9 oktober kl. 13-16
Möt medlemmarna i projektet
Här kommer du kunna möta ett antal av dem som representerar de organisationer som deltar i projektet. Vi börjar med en presentation av delprojektledarna i respektive land. Fler presentationer kommer publiceras allt eftersom under hösten 2026.
Ellinor Lindmark projektledare Climate Forest Skogsstyrelsen
Ellinor Lindmark är Skogsstyrelsens representant i projektet och leder och följer upp myndighetens arbete i projektet. Utöver den administrativa delen arrangerar och genomför hon aktiviteter samt tillhandahåller kunskapsunderlag och annat stöd vid behov.
Ellinor har lång erfarenhet, kunskap och ett stort nätverk från att hon i många år jobbat med samverkansprojektet multiskadad ungskog i norra Sverige, som till stor del handlade om törskatesvamp och älgskador, precis som detta projekt. Hon hoppas att projektet ska bidra till ökad kunskap om törskate och älgskador och att vi i båda länderna får en bättre klimatanpassning av hur vi sköter skogen.
Hon ser att det finns behov av att få med sig både skogsägare och beslutsfattare för att påbörja klimatanpassningen nu då en försening kan ge negativa effekter i skogen. Om tio år hoppas hon att vi har fått mer kunskap om hur klimatet påverkar uppkomsten av törskatesvamp och älgskador så att effektiva åtgärder kan göras för att minska skador.
Ellinor Lindmark, projectleader Climate Forest, Swedish Forest Agency
Ellinor Lindmark is the Swedish Forest Agency’s representative in the project management, responsible for leading and monitoring the agency’s work within the project. In addition to the administrative aspects, she organizes and carries out activities and help out with data and expertise when needed.
Ellinor brings experience, expertise, and a broad professional network from having worked for many years on a collaborative project focusing on multi-damaged young forests in northern Sweden. Much of that work dealt with Scot’s pine blister rust and moose browsing damage, just like this project. She hopes the project will contribute to increased knowledge about Scot’s pine blister rust and moose damage and help both countries to improve the climate adaptation of forest management practices.
She believes it is essential to engage both forest owners and decision-makers in climate adaptation efforts now, as delays could have negative consequences for our forests. In ten years, she hopes that we will have gained greater knowledge about how climate change influences the occurrence of Scot’s pine blister rust and moose damage, enabling effective measures to reduce these impacts.
Mika Tapio projektledare Skogscentralen Mätsäkeskus Finland
Mika Tapio är en del av Interrega Aurora-projektet Climate Forest och arbetar vid Skogscentralen (Metsäkeskus) i Finland. Han följer upp projektets framsteg genom regelbundna möten, rapportering och kommunikation inom Skogscentralen och med finska projektpartners.
Mika är skogingenjör och har arbetat som kvalitetsexpert med kontroll av skogsskötsel samt som rådgivare åt skogsägare vid finska Skogscentralen. I projektet leder han webinarier och skogsexkursioner.
– I det här projektet kan jag använda både mina skogliga kunskaper och mina färdigheter i att följa upp processer. Det är roligt att bidra både inom administration och ute i skogen, säger Mika Tapio.
Mika Tapio projectleader Climate forest Suomen Mesäkäskus
Mika Tapio is part of the Interreg Aurora-project Climate Forest and work at Mesäkeskus in Finland. He is one of the project leaders who is following up the project progress with regular meetings, reporting and communication within Metsäkeskus and with Finnish project partners.
In the project Mika is responsible for the communication within Metsäkeskus and with the other project partners in Finland. He also participates in the cross-border meeting once a month.
Mika is a forestry engineer and has been working as quality expert for controlling Silviculture and as an advisor for forest owners at the Finnish Forest Centre. In the project he is hosting webinars and excursions in the forest.
– In this project I can use both my forestry skills as the skills for following a process, it’s fun to contribute both in administration and in the forest, says Mika Tapio.
Summering webinar
How to communicate?
On Tuesday November 11 the Interreg Aurora-project ClimateForest hosted a cross-border webinar focusing on communication and advisory services within the Finnish Forest Centre and the Swedish Forest Agency. The aim with event was to exchange knowledge, experiences and good examples. This to inspire new ideas and increased networking between the agencies.
The programme contained a comparison between the agencies’ different prerequisites when it comes to finance and number of employees, number of private forest owners and how the agencies have chosen to approach them as well as larger forest companies.
Social media
For instance, the agencies have chosen different ways when it comes to social media. The Finnish Forest Centre encourage their staff to use their own private accounts for posts about their expertise in forestry. The Swedish Forest Agency has official accounts. Both agencies agreed upon the challenges of responding to posts. It is a fine line to choose which posts to answer and which not to. There was also a discussion about trends and what platforms may be most effective way to reach target groups in the future.
Advisory services
There are also differences between the countries when it comes to advisory services. As an example, both agencies have a “My page”-service but in Finland forest owners can use the platform to contact forest loggers directly. Another difference is that the Swedish Forest Agency still has a lot of direct contact with small private forest owners whereas the Finnish Forest Centre mostly correspond via larger forest companies.
Participants
– The participants represented both agencies and mirrored of how each agency work with communication, says organizer Mika Tapio. In Sweden, communication is carried out by both professional communicators as well as forest officers compared to Finland, where most of the communication is handled by professionals.
Moose broweing damage in Finland and Sweden
On June 3rd Interreg Aurora-project ClimateForest hosted a cross- border webinar on moose browsing damages. The speakers were leading experts from forest research institutes in Finland and Sweden, as well as the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Swedish Forest Agency.
The aim of the event was to identify challenges and discuss common grounds related to moose browsing damage on a national and regional level, and to discuss further cross-country exchanges.
The webinar
The webinar started with a short introduction made by organizer Mika Tapio, the Finnish Forest Centre. Then the key speakers Juho Matala, the Natural Resources Institute Finland, and Christer Kalén, the Swedish Forest Agency, made a short description of how moose damages are defined in Finland and Sweden respectively.
In the second part of the webinar key speaker Ari Nikula, the Natural Resources Institute Finland, gave an overview of resource-based moose population planning and damage control in Finland. Fredrik Widemo, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, gave a brief presentation about moose management in Sweden. And last, but not least, Märtha Wallgren, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, gave a summary of wild-life adapted forestry.
Group discussions
The webinar ended with discussions in small groups and then a joint discussion. Mani topics to discuss were the biggest challenges and what we can learn from each other. Several of the groups mentioned the recruitment of new moose hunters as a challenge, as well as forest owners regenerating with spruce instead of pine because of heavy browsing.
Outcome
- The webinar will result in a short paper, summarizing the lectures and the group discussion, says organizer Mika Tapio. This will then form the basis for additional cross-border cooperation and knowledge exchange.
Forests at the Core of Climate Change Adaption
On May 9th Interreg Aurora-project ClimateForest hosted a cross- border webinar on climate change and the adaptation of boreal forests. The speakers represented agencies in both Sweden and Finland.
The aim of the webinar was to give an overview of how climate change adaptation is dealt with on a national level in Finland and Sweden, how adaptation is organized and how it is followed up by the Finnish Forest Centre and the Swedish Forest Agency respectively.
Key speakers
Key speakers were Jaana Kaipanen, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, Juha Tuononen, the Finnish Forest Centre, Bodil Ståhl, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Carin Nilsson, the Swedish Forest Agency.
- We were very glad to get such extinguished speakers at the webinar, says organizer Mika Tapio, at the Finnish Forest Centre.
Jaana Kaipanen and Bodil Ståhl described the status of adaptation on a national level, what challenges there are and the approaches to climate change each country has chosen. Juha Tuononen and Carin Nilsson focused on the forests in northern Finland and Sweden and the status of adaptation, what challenges there are and the approaches to climate change.
Discussions
After the presentations the participants had discussions in smaller groups about the main challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation and how collaboration between the countries when it comes to adaptation strategies, plans and measures can be enhanced.
Several groups mentioned the long time spans when it comes to forestry as a challenge, the value of using the same climate scenarios in Sweden and Finland and the need for more joint collaboration and exchange between the countries.
Next step
- Now we will summarize the discussions and reflections from the webinar so we can prepare for a next step to increase the cross-border cooperation about climate change adaptation of boreal forests, concludes organizer Carin Nilsson at the Swedish Forest Agency.