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The world’s first forestry school, located in the Saxon city of Tharandt, attracts students from all over Europe.

In his 1791 work, Georg Ludwig Hartig advocates a new strategy for sustainable forest management.

One of the first comprehensive forest surveys takes place in the duchy of Saxe-Weimar.

The model calls for the inclusion of diverse plant species at various stages of growth in forests with a view to reproducing the conditions of an indigenous forest.

Wilhelm Gottfried Moser formulates the basic principle of “sustainable forest management.”

In Sylvicultura Oeconomica, written in response to the widespread scarcity of wood throughout Europe, Hans Carl von Carlowitz summarizes extant forestry knowledge and supplements it with his own observations.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV, oversees “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts,” ushering in a new system of forest management.

John Evelyn advocates an extensive reforestation program and the systematic foundation of forests and parks in England, not least to support the British fleet dependent on wood resources.