Objective
The private gamekeeper, in addition to their surveillance and game management duties, is very often entrusted with forestry tasks (planting, maintenance of plantations, thinning marking, timber measurement, etc.). This two-day training aims to provide trainees or novice gamekeepers with the fundamentals of a gamekeeper's forestry work. The training will be jointly led by an SRFB trainer and two experienced gamekeepers who will be able to share their daily work experience.
The first day will be dedicated to volume estimation, marking for thinning in conifers (and in broadleaves if time permits), and species selection (using the ecological species file). The second day will be dedicated to planting and its maintenance (staking, planting with a mattock-axe, game protection, pruning, clearing). The training will be primarily focused on practical aspects and will include numerous practical exercises.
Speakers
- Nicolas Dassonville, RFSB
- Bernard Lemaire, guard at Trois-Ponts (1st day)
- Quentin d’Otreppe, goalkeeper for Lierneux (Matchday 2)
Program
| Day 1 (Trois-Ponts, 7 May) | |
| 9:00 AM | Concepts of cubing, practical exercise on logs on the ground and standing trees, Marking for thinning in conifers (exercises in spruce, Douglas fir and larch) |
| 12h00 | Picnic (bring your own) |
| 12:30 AM | Continuation of thinning marking exercises |
| 2:30 PM | Stationary analysis and use of the forest species ecological file, and practical exercises in different topographic and soil situations |
| 17h00 | End of the day |
| Day 2 (Lierneux, 16 November) | |
| 9:00 AM | Open-field planting (staking out, hoe-axe planting), exercise with bare-root plants and with potted plants |
| 10:30 AM | Game protection (individual and collective): presentations of different options and practice of installing sheaths, latex application… |
| 12h00 | Picnic (bring your own) |
| 12:30 AM | Plantation maintenance (training pruning and thinning) |
| 15h00 | Targeted works in natural regeneration |
| 17h00 | End of the day |