Silviculture and harvesting teams use QField across the operations cycle:

• Planting block capture and verification against the plan
• Harvest block boundary tracking and post-harvest reconciliation
• Riparian buffer monitoring and compliance documentation
• Forest road, culvert, and crossing inventory
• Stream crossing condition assessment
• Post-harvest stand attributes for next-rotation planning

Built for verification, not just planning

A lot of forestry tooling is built for the proponent. QField sits cleanly on either side of the relationship. Forestry operators use it to track and document their own work. Independent organisations, including conservation groups and regulators, use the same tool to verify what actually happened on the ground after operations are complete. The data lives in whichever party’s QGIS project and QFieldCloud account makes sense.

One workflow with QGIS and QFieldCloud

Operations plans go from QGIS to every tablet through QFieldCloud . Field crews capture activity, condition, and evidence as they work. The office sees the data the next time devices sync. Conflict-safe merges keep multiple crews working the same season without overwriting each other.

Forestry operations stories

• Building on top of QFieldCloud , where GINVE’s operators capture trees, shrubs, hedges, and turf across municipal landscapes
• Browse all forestry success stories →

Looking for the broader picture? See QField for forestry and silviculture → .