RFSB volunteers in figures
Balance sheet as at 1 December 2021
448 days voluntary work
106 days services to our members thanks to volunteers
714 people reached by the Forest Guides
Enclosure
13 volunteers/coaches carried out annual surveys of 81 devicesspread across 34 forestry properties. The new team was given a day's training by professionals.
Estimated: 35 days of voluntary work
Coaches
12 coaches carried out plantation monitoring and produced reports for 20 sponsored plantations by the SRFB. 4 planting projects and their monitoring have been postponed until 2022. 6 are still awaiting the report or visit.
Forestry coaching
16 coaching sessions new foresters or foresters with questions during 2021.
3 klumps projects have been coached or are in the process of being coached.
42 days on-the-spot coaching.
Estimated: 84 days of voluntary work
Forest Health Observers
The OC team active in 2021 is made up of 11 people :
- 4 members of the SRFB team
- 7 volunteers
Planting protocols
11 OCs carried out 51 spring protocols and 51 autumn protocols. Owner and SRFB reports were sent to 14 properties. By 01 December 2021, 75 protocols had been encoded with the OWSF.
On 01 December, reports for 12 protocols on 4 properties were still pending.
V files
32 V cards were sent to the OWSF (reports of problems and symptoms). 2 O records were encoded with the OWSF, for two reports of processionary caterpillars.
A total of 109 encodings were made to the OWSF, with 282 observations of symptoms and health problems.
The Observateurs devoted 50 days in the field22 of which were followed by planting in teams of two COs.
Then there's the preparatory work: preliminary contact, analysis of the ecological file, re-reading of the problems of the species concerned.
And the follow-up work: encoding on the OWSF database, reporting to the owner and the OWSF.
Estimated: 172 days of voluntary work.
Trainings
6 training courses :
- 1 day on planting protocol
- 1 day of encoding
- 1 day to calibrate observations
- 3 days for 3 new COs
Forest Friends
160 days of voluntary work.
Become a volunteer forester!
Have you decided to become a Volunteer Forester to carry out one or more missions as a Guide, Coach and/or Forest Correspondent-Observer?
Send an e-mail to Julie Goffette (Project Manager) Forest Friends and volunteering)
specifying your request.
julie.goffette@srfb-kbbm.be
