Overview
- Hesse’s 2025 forest survey shows 27% of trees with medium crown thinning, a slight improvement from 28% in 2024 that officials still classify as high damage.
- Forestry minister Ingmar Jung announced a long-term restructuring program toward climate-stable stands in a state with about 898,000 hectares of forest, 38% owned by the state.
- Hessen Forst reports roughly 10% damaged area since 2018—about 90,000 hectares—with more than 25 million trees planted in the state forest to reestablish mixed stands.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s latest report records a net forest-area increase of 5,688 hectares since 2012 to 582,361 hectares, with 0.26 hectares of forest per resident despite only 25% overall forest cover.
- MV is advancing an annual afforestation program of about 300 hectares and embedding Dauerwald practices that avoid clearcutting and favor multi-aged stands, as debates continue over operational costs.