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From Forests grows the Future

The Center of Forestry Weihenstephan - forest research, education and knowledge transfer at one single place:

  • Basic research to understand how forests and forest ecosystems function;
  • Applied research for their sustainable use and optimum protection of their services;
  • Future-oriented education in ecological, economical and technical methods and processes;
  • Comprehensive consulting and knowledge transfer to the entire forest and timber sector.

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The Center is located in
the State of Bavaria
and part of Germany's
largest "Green Campus"
in Weihenstephan near
Munich.


With 2.5 Mio. ha stocked
area and timber stocks
of over 400 cubic meters
per hectare of forested
area, Bavaria has more
forests than any other state
in Germany and by far the
highest timber yield in Europe.

 


With a staff of 400 people in
50 departments and sections
the Center builds an effective interface between science and practice, and serves foresters, forest owners, timber industry, politics, media, and society as central contact in all forest and timber related questions.