New Woodland Editor launched

The new woodland editor system has been added to the site today. The system replaces the old home page in the woodland owner account, and combines editing features that were previously spread across several pages. Woodland owners can now edit the mapping for all of their sub-compartments in the same place. This development brings myForest…

OneOak exhibition report

The OneOak finale exhibition, hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh last Autumn, was made possible thanks to the support of the Scottish Forestry Trust. As a condition of their funding a report about the exhibition has been submitted to the charity. It confirmed that over 49,000 members of the public were exposed to the exhibition…

Supporting forest science - Sylva Scholarship

Help us secure the Sylva scholarship

Sylva supports cutting-edge forest science in a partnership with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford by offering a scholarship to DPhil students. We are seeking donors to help us secure our next scholar and, additionally, to help us raise an endowment fund to secure the scholarship in perpetuity. Our first scholar Kirsty Monk…

Good Woods project film released

A film about the B&Q Good Woods project has been released. It features Sarah Greenaway from B&Q and Pooran Desai from our partners BioRegional who explain the ideas behind the project and our work objectives during 2013. They visit brickmaker Jim Matthews of H. G Matthews who uses timber to fire his kiln, harvested both…

The BeWILD Legacy Report

Edit – we originally posted an incorrect download link, which we have now fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience. This is an evaluation report of the BeWILD Project, an ancient woodland management project delivered across Berkshire from 2008-2011. This Report pulls together the successes and achievements of the BeWILD Project, and aims to share our experiences…

Sylva supports Grown in Britain

Sylva supports Grown in Britain

Sylva is pleased to lend its support to a new movement known as Grown in Britain that has been launched with cross-Government support and the involvement of all parts of the forestry sector across Britain. Its aims are to: Create a new and stronger market ‘pull’ for the array of products derived from our forests…

Drawing a venerable ash for The New Sylva

A venerable ash for The New Sylva

Reblogged from The New Sylva The authors of The New Sylva have been searching, with help from readers of their book blog, for the best example of a venerable ash tree in Britain to feature in the book. Last week our artist-in-residence, Sarah Simblet, visited the chosen tree with co-author Gabriel Hemery. It is growing…