Applications to the 2024 Professional Forester Apprenticeship are now open. Marcus Ling has just started the apprenticeship programme and is working within the Forestry Commission’s South East and London Area...
...for a third round of funding applications, with £260,000 available for projects during 2024/25. Collecting dry seed in thinned area. Credit: Clive Ellis, Oxley Wood, Essex As well as the...
...4 years, and our hopes for 2024/25. As we write, the recent freeze has passed and Storms Isha and Jocelyn have blown through the country. All this noteworthy weather has...
During National Plant Health Week 2024, our panel of experts from the Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Observatree led a live Tree Health Clinic Q&A on...
...works and the legal responsibilities around these protected species. Book now for: European Protected Species for Foresters, Tuesday, 10 September 2024 -Lyme Park & Goyte Forest, Stockport, SK12 2NR European...
...until August 2024. The new scheme aims to establish better coordination between landowners and managers at a local level to help tackle the hazardous pest. Calling all owners of infested...
Chris Watson, Woodland Resilience Adviser, explains how sustainable woodland management, underpinned by timber income, is crucial to ensuring our woodlands continue to thrive. In this blog, Chris invites Nature Recovery...
...woodland is in decline, with statistics showing the area has dropped by 14% from 356,000ha in 2007 to 305,000ha in 2024. A 14% loss of broadleaf woodland would have rightly...
...and germination promoters to the seed pellet to assess if these additions improve germination and seedling establishment. Through commercialisation of the technology developed in this project, we hope to increase...
...how our approach works in practice. The owner, Ros, signed up to the project in 2024 and has been a dedicated custodian of the woodland, striving to manage it sustainably....
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