A new oak forest
One hundred guests, including children from our partner primary schools, returned to the site where the OneOak tree was felled one year ago to celebrate and to plant a new oak forest.
A commemorative garden bench
Rodas Irving’s beautiful commemorative garden bench has been completed. Rodas hand-carved some lettering on the bench for his client. Read more about Rodas Irving’s work in the OneOak project Visit Rodas Irving’s blog
Scholarship research begins in earnest
Sylva scholar research work gets underway in the woodlands of Oxfordshire
Sylva contributes to BBC debate
Our Chief Executive, Dr Gabriel Hemery, appeared on the BBC Newsnight Programme on Wednesday 26th, in a film about the Government’s proposal to sell elements of the public forest estate in England.
Forestry could be deregulated
The Forestry Regulation Task Force has been set up to look at whether and how the regulatory burden on forest-based business and woodland owners in England can be reduced.
OneOak tree and human history
The OneOak tree germinated the same year as The Times was first published, by the Battle of Trafalgar was as tall as a two story building, was 47 years old when Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands …
Tree barcode game and competition
We have created a Tree Barcode Game where you need to become a dendrochronologist, or a tree-time scientist, and tell us the answers to six questions.
175th wood-using business signs up on myForest
Today the 175th business signed up to the free myForest map-based business directory.
OneOak tree planting shanties
Musician Sarah Morgan visited Willowcroft Community School, one of our OneOak partner schools, to practice and record two tree planting songs.
Oak tells a story
An article about the research activities undertaken in our OneOak project has been published in the Chartered Forester magazine. Dowload a copy.