We are proud to announce today a ground-breaking scheme to breathe new life into neglected woodlands, developed by a partnership between the Sylva Foundation, BioRegional and B&Q. We have teamed up with sustainability charity BioRegional and B&Q to support woodland owners in bringing woodlands into active management. The new scheme is part of B&Q’s One…
The one thousandth woodland has been mapped on myForest service website. The total area mapped now exceeds 17,000ha across Britain, with a few Irish woodland owners having signed up over recent months. These statistics tell us that the average woodland size is 1.47ha. In reality of course, from more in depth analysis we know that…
WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY- Training Workshops with John Morris of the Chilterns Woodland Project This popular one day course will include an illustrated talk, a guided woodland visit to see features found in Pigotts Wood, and a chance to explore the wood. Features found in Pigotts Wood include sawpits, charcoal hearths, lynchets, boundary banks, iron bloomery,…
LOOKING FOR THE TRULY TREE….MENDOUS! The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) has recently announced details for its 2013 Woodland Awards. Once again John Clegg & Co will be sponsoring the Multipurpose Forestry category (The Duke of Cornwall Award). Details of the awards have been provided to us by the RFS as set out below and application…
The authors of The New Sylva are searching for the finest example of a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree to feature in the book. They hope that our readers can help by submitting their favourite ash trees – one of which will be selected and appear in the book frontispiece. Can you propose a candidate ash tree?
Over 110 people, most of whom were woodland owners and managers, attended the British Woodlands 2012 conference in Oxford on 11th December. The conference provided a voice for the woodland owner and presented some preliminary results of the survey. Some 2500 respondents to the survey, owning 1.75 million hectares, told us that they ….
Sylva’s Artist-in-Residence, Sarah Simblet, has been in the Scottish Highlands with Gabriel Hemery this week. They are working on a series of drawings for The New Sylva book that …
The OneOak exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has now entered its last week. Over the last five weeks some tens of thousands of visitors have seen the displays of information about sustainable forest management, watched the films, listened to the music, and been amazed by both the beauty and variety of wooden items made from the OneOak tree.
With just four weeks to go to Christmas, we have some remaining limited edition prints of the OneOak tree, drawn by our artist Sarah Simblet. Available to buy online from our shop, it would make a perfect Sylvan gift for any tree lover.
Adopt an Ash on TreeWatch.com and help us identify ‘resistant’ trees that could be used in a breeding programme to secure a future for ash in Britain.