Guest lecture with Brian Roth, Executive Director of Forest Release

Guest lecture with Brian Roth, Executive Director of Forest Release

          On May 21, 2024, in order to familiarise higher education students with current trends in the development of reforestation and afforestation, the Department of Agricultural Technology and Forestry held a guest lecture with Brian ROTH, Executive Director of Forest Release, a non-profit organisation from the United States that is engaged in demining and clearing forests of unexploded ordnance, increasing the safety, productivity and sustainability of forests in former war zones.

          One of Forest Release’s activities is to raise funds in Canada and the United States to provide humanitarian and technical assistance in the area of forest firefighting and the clearance of explosive ordnance (EOD), which is currently contaminating our country’s forests. The presence of unexploded ordnance in Ukraine’s forests will complicate both logging and reforestation. That is why the clearance of unexploded ordnance in forest areas is in the focus of this NGO’s attention.

          The topic of Brian ROTH’s meeting with students and lecturers of the department concerned the experience of practical forestry in North America. Mr. ROTH spoke about the peculiarities of plantation cultivation of conifers in the United States, about the forms of forest ownership, about silvicultural and forestry measures for growing commercial timber in his country.

Brian Roth’s speech aroused great interest, which was reflected in numerous questions to the lecturer from both teachers and students of the department.