MMM TurvaHiili

Introduction

This development and training project, focusing on the restoration of nutrient poor, low productive peatland forests, develops criteria for successful site selection and brings together good practices for successful restoration. Successful site selection and good practice will be passed on to current and future practitioners responsible of planning operations and carrying out restoration work. We will implement this as workshops supported by digital mobile material, as well as restoration demonstrations and self-contained demonstration sites in different parts of Finland, as well as by producing guided video and podcast series that we target and communicate separately to restoration planners and machine operators, as well as for the use of forest education in forestry machinery schools and the universities of Eastern Finland and Helsinki.

We focus on nutrient poor, low productive peatland forests with known moderate methane emissions and low timber yields. The success of restoration is defined as a slowdown in peat decomposition, recovery of the soil carbon sink, and an increase in functional diversity. We form the site selection criteria mainly based on the already existing gas exchange data and vegetation data. This is supplemented by collecting new data on functional diversity and peat properties. We define good practices by gathering the experiences of restoration practitioners through interviews and by visiting restoration sites carried out by the interviewees. The project is part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s climate measures in the land use sector, and it is coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland.

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Contact person: Liisa Maanavilja

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