Niedersächsische Landesforsten is the state forestry agency of Lower Saxony in Germany. It manages around 335,000 hectares of public forest on a 50-year horizon, under a long-term climate-adaptation plan called LÖWE+. For customers who want their trees in Germany, this is where they grow: in a public forest you can actually walk through.
Public, freely accessible forest with education centers and 10,700 km of maintained paths.
Converts spruce monocultures into mixed, near-natural, climate-resilient forest stands.
Sustainable, PEFC-certified forestry that keeps the public forest healthy for the next generation.
Wald in guten Händen.
Landesforsten plans stand by stand, with a 50-year horizon, deciding what each piece of forest should look like by 2070 so it survives the warmer, drier climate that is already arriving. Under the LÖWE+ program, the share of beech is planned to rise from about 22% to 36% of all stands, because beech copes better with drought. About every fourth seedling planted is a beech.
A look at how this forest is managed for the long term.
Adapt the forest to a warmer, drier climate and keep it storing carbon for decades to come.
Sustainably manage forests and shift monocultures toward stable, near-natural, biodiverse stands.
Your trees grow in state forest in Lower Saxony, Germany, planted and tended by the foresters of Niedersächsische Landesforsten as part of a long-term, climate-adapted plan.
31+ native tree species
