Careers in Forestry: Mark's story

Mark West from the Green Task Force looks back at his career so far, and how he made the change from being in uniformed service to working in forestry and...
Mark West from the Green Task Force looks back at his career so far, and how he made the change from being in uniformed service to working in forestry and...
...in woodlands that are transient in nature, where habitats are inadvertently created or maintained throughout the working forest. CCF requires little and often management interventions such as thinning, which creates...
...father died nine years ago he made it clear that it was of great importance that the wood remain in the family as a legacy to continue to be enjoyed....
Dr Daegan Inward is a Senior Scientist at Forest Research working on the threats to UK trees and woodlands from Ips typographus. In this blog, Daegan shares his insights into...
Join us for this month's 'Into the woods' blog by Resilience Officer Jon Burgess, who shares how silvicultural techniques used at a woodland in Devon has built resilience against the...
Ian Everard is a Field Manager in the Yorkshire and North East team and has been in forestry for 43 years. Ian talks about his journey into forestry, what inspired...
...to the vents hidden in the trees connected to mining shafts that remain underground. Links between the industrial past and the wooded present become obvious when you know what to...
Join us for this month’s ‘Into the woods’ blog by Helen Townsend, the Forestry Commission’s Head of People, Landscape and Historic Environment. To mark Take a Walk Outdoors Day, she...
...or other objectives. They are: CWS7 Manage historic features in woodlands, including scheduled monuments. This helps to deliver benefits to protection historic features above and below ground and to reduce...
...and monitoring to track tree growth and assess the success of different species preparing to plant more trees in the final planting season, which will begin in autumn 2025 community...