Following in my family's forestry footsteps
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...
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Into the woods: enhancing local history with woodland and green space
...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...
5 tips for Environmental Land Management in-field agroforestry applications
...successfully integrating trees into your farming business. To be put in touch with your local AFWO, please email GRNationalteam@forestrycommission.gov.uk with your location and they will get back to you shortly....
Into the woods: the value of amenity woodlands
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...
Celebrating the timber in our lives
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Dr Anna Brown, Posted on:
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Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...to be collected in a mixed woodland in the Forest of Dean. Crown copyright Fostering innovation The timber industry today combines traditional practices with modern innovations to tackle contemporary challenges...
A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years
...To support this momentum, we’re investing in people by funding apprenticeships to build the skills we need to plant and care for our woodlands, now and into the future. The...
Might oaks from little acorns grow…?
...without landowners needing to develop new expertise and putting less time and money into an unfamiliar venture. A new £1 million Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Fund also opened in...
Tigers and hawks in our forests
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Kate Tobin, Posted on:
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Categories:
Ancient woodland, Nature, Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...up on them by “whispering” – emitting echolocation calls 10 to 100 times lower in amplitude than other bat species, which allows them to get up to four times closer...
Tree protection – thinking about risks and opportunities
...the winter, particularly after snowfall. Hares Hard winters can drive hares into woodlands resulting in localised damage to young, unprotected trees. This can take the form of cleanly bitten-off leading...
Making space for nature – to benefit water
...fertilisers can help to avoid N and P loss due to rainfall, but inevitably large amounts of agricultural applications can, and still are, leaching into watercourses. In a nutshell, planting...
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