nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
This week we launch a refurbished version of our weekly Newsletter.
It features a new section dedicated to myForest users, and will be sent to directly to all those using the service currently (and who opt in) – about 1000 woodland owners and agents.
The authors have been searching for a few elusive botanical specimens to illustrate for The New Sylva. Last week they visited one of the best locations for any tree hunter: Britain’s national arboretum at Westonbirt, in Gloucestershire, which features some 2,500 different tree species.
If you own or manage “PAWS” woodland, the England Woodland Biodiversity Group would like to hear from you. Complete a simple web-survey to inform them whether you are considering restoring your woodland to native tree cover, and about your approach to woodland management.
Sylva’s Dr Gabriel Hemery will be speaking at the Chilterns Woodland Conference on Friday 7th June 2013 about The New Sylva book.
A new scheme has been launched that we hope will encourage sustainable forest management in all woodlands, and promote greater understanding of good woodland stewardship among the general public. The Woodland Star Rating is a self-assessment scheme based on the UK Forestry Standard (UKFS). The scheme has been developed by the Sylva Foundation as part…
Sylva is proud to be taking part in the very first Big Give Charities Raffle and we hope you will be keen to support us – and of course you will be in with a chance of winning fantastic prizes! As a charity registered on the Big Give we can sell tickets to our supporters…
In the final act of the OneOak project, today we returned the OneOak memorial sculpture to its rightful home; to the woodland at Blenheim Palace. The sculpture, designed and made by Simon Clements, toured around all the OneOak exhibition venues during 2011 and 2012 but it was always destined to rest on top of the…
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…
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…
A major milestone has been passed in the myForest Service. The total area of woodlands mapped across Britain now exceeds 20,000 hectares (or 49,421 acres). This represents 1192 woodlands owned by 731 individuals. We provide real-time essential statistics that can be viewed by anyone at any time, see: www.sylva.org.uk/myforest/about_stats.php