Work Papenvoort heathland for a healthy and diverse forest

As a municipality, we would like to have natural, healthy and varied forest areas. To ensure this, we are going to convert part of our forest areas (the Papenvoort heath, the Vaarlese heath, the Collse and Refeling heath and Pastoorsmast) to 'natural forest'. A natural forest is a forest area that consists of a forest as natural as possible with many different native deciduous trees and shrubs (native to our country) and a high biodiversity. 

The Bosgroep Zuid-Nederland selects the trees to be felled deliberately and very carefully. This is already happening. The trees we remove will receive an orange paint marking on the trunk. This reduces the proportion of non-native tree species and increases the structure in the forest area. Trees without markings or with yellow stripes or blue or green dots will remain. The felling of the trees will take place next fall/winter. 

These measures have already taken place last winter in the forest on the Vaarlese heath (north of the A270 highway).

In February 2024 we will start work on the forest areas at the Papenvoortse Heide in Nuenen.

For detailed information about the work on the Papenvoort heath to promote a healthy and diverse forest, please see the relevant page.

Questions about the work?

If you have any questions about the work, contact Bosgroep Zuid Nederland at (040) 20 66 360.