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Trollberget

Eliza Maher Hasselquist lecturing at Trollberget

Millions of hectares of northern peatlands and wet mineral soils have been drained for forestry which has increased forest productivity in some areas, but not all. The future fate of these drainage ditches can be to:

  1. clean them to ensure continued drainage
  2. ecologically restore them to a more natural state, or
  3. leave them alone.

In the fall of 2018, we added eight water quality monitoring stations which will run in parallel with the Krycklan monitoring network in a side-by-side comparison with the goal of determining the effects of these three different management methods on water quality and quantity. This new area is called the Trollberget Experimental Area, and it began with the EU LIFE programs GRIP on LIFE Integrated Project that includes demonstration areas for the restoration of an unproductive drained peatland and best practices for cleaning of forest ditches.

The original project has expanded to include other studies of forestry practices, including forest harvest, site preparation, and riparian buffer design as well as other potential environmental effects from these management actions, including greenhouse gas emissions, carbon and water cycling, and biodiversity, among others.

Hjalmar Laudon, Head of department, Professor
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, joint staff
hjalmar.laudon@slu.se, +46907868584, +46705606625

Published: 31 May 2023 - Page editor: kim.lindgren@slu.se

Department of Forest Ecology and Management 

Head of department Hjalmar Laudon, +46-90-786 8584
Deputy Head of department, premises & security Mats Öquist, +46-90-786 8525
Deputy Head of department, undergraduate studies Gustaf Egnell +46-90-786 8455
Deputy Head of department, post graduate studies Maja Sundqvist, +46-90-786 8273
Deputy Head of department, equal opportunities Kelley Gundale, +46-90-786 8444
Deputy Head of department, young researchers Lars Östlund, +46-90-786 8442 
Postal address: SLU, Skogens ekologi och skötsel, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
Visiting address: Skogsmarksgränd 17, Umeå

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