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As the end of Grown in Britain week nears, the team behind the Good Woods project announces that over 100 woodlands, covering an area of under-managed woodland the size of 13,000 football pitches, has been supported. Good Woods is a pioneering joint initiative between DIY retailer B&Q, sustainability charity BioRegional and forestry charity The Sylva…
The full report of the 2012 British Woodlands Survey has been published. Part-funded and published by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), it is available for free download on their website. http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/research/research-reports/british-woodlands-2012/ Nicholls, D, M Young, G Hemery, G Petrokofsky, and A Yeomans. British Woodlands 2012: a National Survey of Woodland Owners. Royal Institute…
Sonia Hutton-Taylor recently bought a small woodland, fulfilling a long-held dream to own a woodland. Sonia received a Good Woods visit from Paul Orsi under the Good Woods initiative and . . .
Our second Sylva Scholar has started her research at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, funded partly by the Sylva Scholarship. Louise Hill, who was an undergraduate at Oxford before completing an MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia, has returned to Oxford undertake a DPhil research project…
Grown in Britain has released a wonderful film following the story of tree to table. It shows the harvesting of an ash tree at the Cranborne Estate in Dorset, grown with continuous cover silviculture under supervision of SelectFor, its conversion by Tyler Hardwoods, design by Benchmark into a table and benches, and finally its inclusion…
A summary report of a survey undertaken during 2012 of the domestic firewood supply chain has been published. 336 actors responded from 69 counties. Moving towards universal standards and improved clarity of terminology were seen as important but would require a nationwide strategy.
Good Woods advisor, Paul Orsi (Sylva Foundation) visited the National Trust owned Ashdown Estate this week to discuss the future management of woodlands that surround the 17th Century Ashdown House. Paul was invited by Richard Jackson, who manages the estate, and Andy Foley the resident Ranger. The woodlands at Ashdown estate are a very prominent…
At the end of last month Alistair Yeomans of the Sylva Foundation was invited to give a presentation to members of Forestry Commission England and Defra on the Good Woods project. The purpose of the seminar was to provide an overview of a number of recent projects that aim to assist efforts to bring more…
As well as some great work being undertaken in individual woodlands, a Good Woods advisor identifies opportunities to work more strategically across woodlands in one Borough Council to support sustainable forest management