Forest management inWestern-Europe is evolving towardsmultifunctionality and higher levels of sustainability.
Co-owned forest managingmodels,where different owners collaborate and forest users participate however, are
still rather an exception of a rule. Bosland (literally forest-land) in Flanders (Belgium)is a statutory partnership of
several public forest owners and stakeholders,managing an area of about 22,000 ha of previously fragmented forest
relicts. By looking at this case through transition lenses we describe a pioneering case in forest management
where a new way of management is adopted more geared towards management for coherence across multiple
ecosystem services and across a multitude of stakeholders. By use of a learning history we were able to reconstruct
the change trajectory of Bosland. Analysis of this change trajectory through transition lenses aided to identify
essential key features in which Bosland differs from ‘management as usual’ approaches