Training in close-to-nature forest management and its silvicultural techniques is based on many years of personal experiences (starting in early eighties of the former century), including forestry students, forestry professionals and forest owners.

 

An examplary structure of the practical forest training is as follows:

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1. Analyses of composition, structure and processes of one or more Dinaric virgin forests based on scientific sources and some quick assessmemts carried out by the training participants (e.g. the forest growing stock volume and structure, BHD diameter and tree height distributions, composition and structure of forest regeneration, process of natural selection of trees and their quality in young forest development stages under the canopy and deadwood volume and structure); 

2. Assessments of composition, structure and processes of neighboring selectively managed forests with their past management practices using the best but also less good examples; 

3. Theoretical and practical consideration of key close-to-nature forest management principles as background for practical trainings; 

4. Implementation of various silvicutural techniques of uneven-aged forest management (such as high selective thinning, individual and group selection and/or regeneration felling) with simultaneous care for forest biodiversity conservation (e.g. by leaving large and old trees, special "habitat" trees, "eco-cells" and deadwood, as well as maintaining other species' habitat features) in selected forest stands, using experimental marking of trees for felling based on previous silvicultural analysis; 

5. Evaluation and joint consideration of the training results and summarizing the lessons learned.

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The forest training courses can be combined with study visits.