Storms are the most important natural handicap affecting Europe’s forests. Due to climate change, it is expected that their importance will continue to grow in the future and therefore significantly increase the wind resilience of trees and nurseries. Several models (ForestGALES, HWIND) have been developed to assess the expected impact of different forestry activities on tree wind stability, but there is no (HWIND) or insufficient (ForestGALES) use of trees grown on peat soils. Important forest areas in Latvia grow on wet or drained peat soils (721 thousand ha in total), and these stands are most often affected by wind damage. There is also a lack of data on a large dimension in these models (HWIND: Height > 24 m) in Latvia’s forests on the most fertile soils, pine and spruce wind stability. Consequently, the aim of the study is to obtain the correlations characterising the impact of wind on peat soils in hemiboreal forests and to develop a forest management decision-making support system (tools) for wind damage risk assessment and risk assessment, as well as to prepare recommendations for forest management measures to reduce damage. The data needed for research is expected to be obtained by performing stress tests of different dimensions of trees – measuring the force at which the tree is dumped or broken, as well as analysing its root system in frozen, unfrozen, meliorised and wet peat soils and its link to tree stability. Keywords: Hemiboreal forests, forest management, wind damage, windfall, windbreaking, natural disasters. Over the past decade, direct losses to forest owners caused by storms can be estimated at ~164 million. In the amount of EUR. Losses can be significantly reduced through forest management measures that increase farm wind resilience. The project is planned as an industrial study and all the activities to be implemented are in line with the forestry sector. The research is interdisciplinary and is being implemented in cooperation between specialists of fields of forest science and environmental science (OECD 4.1 and 1.5.). The study according to Cabinet Regulations No. 34 is classified as industrial research, related to economic activity and is implemented as a research organisation and research organisation and merchant cooperation project, which includes research and transfer of research results in the form of knowledge and technology transfer, without exclusivity and discrimination, by means of open publications and agreement for the acquisition of intellectual property rights with the licensee determined in an open tender.The aim of the project is implemented by carrying out related activities.1. Collection of data that characterise tree persistence in soil 1.1. Root system characterisation 1.2. Characteristics of forest soil freezing 2. Extraction of data describing the durability of trees at static load 2.1. Determination of tree strength limit 2.2. Determination of the tree mass distribution Development of a diagnostic tool for tree resistance assessment 3.1. Characterisation of the spatial distribution of storm damage hazards 3.2. Development of wind damage risk assessment tool 4. Diagnostic tool validation 5. Registration of Intellectual Property According to Clause 46 of Cabinet Regulations, the project complies with Article 25(6)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2014 “the project envisages effective cooperation between the company and one or more research and knowledge distribution organisations, which bear at least 10 % of the eligible costs and are entitled to publish their research results” – LVMI Silava is a research organisation that, according to the aid intensity, covers more than 10 % of the research costs and publishes its research results, and the results of this study according to the description of the project will be available in each of the relevant scientific activities and will be published in each of the relevant research activities. This subparagraph also includes compliance with the condition that “the project results shall be widely disseminated through conferences, publications, open-access repositories” – according to the project deliverables plan, its results are to be disseminated in 9 international scientific publications, with presentations at 2 international scientific conferences and 2 scientific conferences or seminars. The research target group is scientific institutions, merchants registered in the Commercial Register of the Republic of Latvia, as well as employees employed in science and research, doctoral students. The indirect target group of the project is forest owners (more than 100 thousand people) and managers, forest industry enterprises, forest and climate policy makers and institutions responsible for their implementation. The knowledge acquired through the project will also be innovative internationally and can be used in other European countries with similar climatic and soil conditions.