nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
A new resource for Woodland Management Planning is now available to support myForest users in England. Whether you are a new woodland owner or further along the process, this support will underpin the entire planning journey and help you create a Forestry Commission approved Woodland Management Plan.
The Sylva Wood Centre is taking part in Oxfordshire Artweeks again this year and opening the Wood School and workshops to the public, on 18/19 May.
A newly launched high-tech online application is set to transform the way landowners, managers and ecologists across the UK carry out woodland surveys.
Continuing our outreach work, we have supported even more students through myForest, this time in Scotland.
On International Women’s Day we look forward to bringing our Woodworking and Gender programme to life in 2024.
A new national monitoring project aims to help prevent the potential spread of a serious pest affecting spruce trees – the larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus).
New Forestry Professionals Network visit the Sylva Foundation to see our work supporting the use of home-grown timber from forestry to wood craft.
At the January Furniture Show, Joe Bray, Head of Sylva Wood School, gave a talk about ‘Working with home-grown timber’.
A new national monitoring project is being rolled out to help prevent the potential spread of a serious pest affecting spruce trees. Volunteers are sought who have spruce growing in woodland that they own or manage, and who are willing to host and collect samples by installing a spruce bark beetle trap.
We invite you to join us exploring what’s on offer at the Sylva Wood School in our next Open Day.