Category: News
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Charter for Trees, Woods and People
SWOG members are already clear about the importance of trees in their own lives and to society as a whole, so let’s all welcome the Charter for Trees, Woods and People. SWOG is joining more than 40 organisations led by the Woodland Trust in a campaign to celebrate the value of our trees and woods and…
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Survey – do you get a commercial return from your wood?
Christine Meadows, a Forestry and Woodland Management degree student at Plumpton College has contacted us with a request for woodland owners to fill in a short questionnaire. Her particular interest is in how well small woodland owners understand and feel able to address the opportunities for commercial return from their woodlands.
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Farm Business Innovations 2015
The Farm Business Innovation Show is for more than just the diversifying farmer, we have leading woodland and forestry experts speaking across the two days (11th & 12th November, NEC Birmingham) who can help you reach your financial, sustainability and rural business goals. This, combined with experts in areas including planning, funding and rural tourism, makes this…
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Free Woodland Restoration Workshop
We are indebted to the Woodland Trust for inviting woodland owners to a free woodland restoration workship. Please contact Jim Smith-Wright (details below) if you are interested in attending. Friday 4th December in Laughton, East Sussex 11 am to 4pm This will include sessions on woodland management, planning and grants available. The afternoon session will…
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Free Consultancy for Foresters and Timber Processers
Thanks to Mathew Woodcock of the Forestry Commision for alerting us to this useful offer. FACE – the Forest Advisory Consortium – are pleased to support Grown in Britain Week by offering all forestry and timber processing businesses operating in England a free 30 minute telephone consultancy from Monday 12th to Friday 16th October. This…
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Making woodlands work survey
England’s woods are a crucial part of the English countryside that provide a range of benefits to their owners and in doing so, enhance our wider landscape, ecology and economy. Woodland owners play an important role in helping to grow and expand woodland in Britain, while boosting their businesses and the forestry sector. The Forestry Commission wants…
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Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp
Charlton Clark from the The Forestry Commission has issued the following statement regarding the discovery of the orienteal gall wasp in an area of kent.
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Axe-making course, Sweden, summer 2015
Ken Hume of the Oxfordshire Woodland Group is looking for fellow enthusiasts to join him on an axe-making course in Sweden. Participants have the opportunity to make their ‘dream axe’ under the expert tuition and guidance of Lars Enander and Ulrika Stridsberg. Lars and Ulrika are expert blacksmiths, and Lars is the author of Swedish Blacksmithing, a book on…
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Launch of the Observatree Project
Kate Hutchinson, has announced the official launch of the Observatree project today. More than 200 UK-wide Observatree volunteers have been trained as citizen scientists and we encourage everyone to be more observant and report possible signs of tree pests and diseases. Read the full story in our media release. You can help us…
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European Coppice Conference 2014
Kentish woodlands and the traditional way they are managed were the focus of an international conference hosted by the University of Greenwich. Visitors from across Europe, as well as from South Africa and Turkey took part in a three-day conference in the heartland of the British coppice industry to learn new techniques, share experiences and…
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Forest Seedlings – Forestry Commission App
New app solves problem of identifying young trees and shrubs A new app-based field guide, Forest Seedlings, from the Forestry Commission has been launched to help identify almost 100 tree and shrub seedlings under one year old that are commonly found in British woods and forests.
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Observatree – coming spring 2015!
News from the Woodland Trust: Observatree is an exciting conservation partnership project, harnessing the power of citizen science to establish a new tree health early warning system. Working together with the public, and networking with related projects, we will detect new threats and track movement and spread of existing pests and diseases. More details on…