Forest Research’s newsletter FR News is now available, but this time it comes with a big difference. As well as the usual roundup of research highlights, they are now delivering it alongside their more in-depth newsletters on social and economic research, ecology and pathology.

FR News: www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/frnews
Contents include:

• • Government Minister and top scientist see the science in the trees
  • Help for managers and owners of native broadleaved woodland
  • Storms – an increasing threat to Europe’s forests
  • Can woodland reduce flooding?
  • Big Society in your local woods!
  • Rare lichen discovery
  • New publications
  • Our other newsletters
  • Events
  • What’s new on our website

The  more in-depth newsletters also have new issues out:

Ecotype: news from our ecologists at www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/ecotype

Growing Places: the latest from our social scientists and economists at www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/growingplaces

Path News: a roundup of pest and disease news www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/pathnews

All of these can be accessed from teh Forest Research website.