Woodland Management

April 20, 2022 · Blogs | News

There’s a buzz in the woods

Just three acres of wildflower patches within a forest can hold nearly nine million flowers – enough to support over half a million pollinators per day. Emma Buckley is Buckley’s Bees’ Chief Executive. Here she talks about why it is important to encourage bees into woodlands.

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January 12, 2022 · Blogs | News

Aerial land scanning – pictures worth a million words!

Jamie Brookes is fascinated by the challenge of applying technology to understand the infinite complexity of the natural world. He believes drones should be seen as a tool to let us see the forest on a new scale and with a new perspective.

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May 10, 2021 · Blogs

Truffle Farming

Meet Martha McCaroon. Find out how her passion for fungi foraging and the natural world has led to her working with trees and truffles after studying Woodland Management and Conservation.

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January 26, 2021 · Blogs

Horse logging: managing woodland on a Scheduled Monument

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March 1, 2020 · Blogs

Trees are complex

Mark Chester MICFor looks at some of the amazingly complex interactions within and between trees which are beginning to give us a new insight into tree health and how best to plant and manage our trees for the future.

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April 1, 2020 · Blogs

Are You Good at Silviculture? Part 1

In Part 1 of this two-part blog, Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor discusses why silviculture is in danger of being the Cinderella of foresty when it should be at the heart of all that foresters do.

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May 1, 2020 · Blogs

Are You Good at Silviculture? Part 2

 Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor examines the second and third ingredients needed to answer this vital question.

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April 1, 2019 · Blogs

Forest soil ecosystem services

Following on from his blog on Six Things to Know about Forest Soils, Andy Moffat has picked up on the theme of forest soil ecosystem services.

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December 1, 2018 · Blogs

Planting for diversity

Tony Bird is passionate about planting a diverse range of tree species on his estate in Warwickshire after seeing the devastation left by Dutch Elm disease and encountering ash die back and cankers and blight on horse chestnuts.

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November 7, 2022 · Blogs

Revisiting Mycorrhizas: Fungi & the Climate

Looking at the relationship between trees, fungi, and climate change, with a throwback to Dr Martin I. Bidartondo's fascinating blog from 2018.

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February 1, 2020 · Blogs

Moving from Livestock Grazing To Broadleaf Woodland – a sustainability opportunity?

David Brown uses Bron Haul as a case study to explore whether land use change from livestock grazing to broadleaf woodland could help the Welsh Government deliver sustainability goals.

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