Risk to life? Important roads are barred? Which measures should be taken first after a storm event?

Exact information on the extent of storm damage is important to forestry offices/ forest authorities, forest districts as well as for forest administration management planning, organising and coping with the storm's aftermath.

The foundation of a solidarity community offers key benefits when coping with storm damages. The community of Gengenbach exemplified this after storm "Lothar".

If national impacts on the timber market due to a storm catastrophe are expected, it's possible to reduce the regular cut in other non affected federal states by the Forest Damage Compensation Law.

Different timber, different assortments, different quality. Before starting processing storm damages you should be clear about the best order of processing.

How to find the best strategy for storm damage management? Several factors are to be considered. A reasonable way is to have a common strategy for all affected owners.

Without a doubt there will be an extraordinary high work load for all personnel after storm catastrophes. Appropriate personnel measures are necessary to support personnel motivation.

Which harvesting method is most suitable when coping with storm damages? Depending on conditions and availability of machines different combinations are possible.

Dangerous situations - at the beginning of logging due to safe practices being underestimated or overlooked and later on as work becomes routine and is treated light-heartedly.

It is possible to use storm damaged timber for wood chip production. Whether the processing is profitable or not depends on different factors.

Safety training, organising the supporting machines, instruction of contractors, maintaining quality standards … Many things have to be taken into consideration for a safe and clean salvage logging.

Log-conservation is an important issue after storm events. Due to the situation, there are different methods of log conservation.

You are going to plan a dry storage for timber? Everything to be considered is listed in this recommendation.

Logs stored under oxygen exclusion can be an option especially for valuable logs.

It is possible to leave storm-damaged trees for up to two years in conservation without processing, if certain conditions are met.

The simplest way to store storm-damaged timber is the storage over bark alongside forest roads - if the period of time between processing and transport to the customer is known.

Advantages and drawbacks of wet storage at a glance.

A lot of things should be considered in advance if you’re planning to build a wet storage site.

Some rules to sustain the quality of timber and to keep track of wet storage.

How to prepare suitable wet storage sites.

This article deals with all important questions about water extraction and irrigation systems.

This article shows how the irrigation system needs to be handled in winter to prevent the timber and the system itself from damage.

This article answers the question:"How much does wet storage cost?"

Sometimes Armillaria mellea can spread in wet stored timber over bark independent from irrigation system and quality.

Instructions for professional application of insecticides.

Alternative control measures can be applied to reduce wood and bark boring insects.

Forest protection problems – mostly bark beetle calamities – mainly follow storm calamities. Integrated Forest Protection can be an important instrument for preventive measures.

The most effective way of reducing bark beetle damage to conifers is "clean" forest practise.

After storm damages there is often a proliferation of wood boring species as well as bark boring species. They can do considerable economical damage.

Not only to avoid transportation shortages during catastrophes but also in normal times, truck transport systems with containers or trailers are an interesting alternative to common timber trucks.

For long distance transportation of timber after storm events the railway is a cost efficient alternative. Thereby additionally capacities for short distance transportation are made available. The article shows what has to be taken into consideration when organising transportation by railway.

For the first time after the "Lothar" stormlarge amounts of timber from Baden-Wuerttemberg was shipped to customers. The immense organisational effort demands careful planning and coordination.

Post storm the question arises: How to reafforest a side adapted stand? Through the assessment of the site and the existing and expected natural regeneration, it is possible to estimate the potential of the area to regenerate naturally.

Due to storm damage coverage, the forest and forestry receives a broad media response ("Only bad news is good news"). Ongoing media coverage of well chosen topics helps the public build a positive image of forest enterprises.

For heavily storm damaged forest enterprises public subsidies are necessary to survive.