nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) has announced that it has secured a £400,000 funding package from the Government through the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Employer Ownership Pilot (EOP). Set up in 2011, the EOP is a competitive fund open to employers, to invest in their current and future workforce in England. Its…
A new network established to promote and share knowledge about novel forest species across Britain has been launched today …
Small Woods is holding a Skill Share weekend at the Green Wood Centre in Telford 6-8 September. Meet newly appointed Small Woods CEO Mike Bentley and hear main speakers Gabriel Hemery (Sylva) and John Weir (Forestry Commission) for a programme of workshops, demonstrations and visits in the beautiful Ironbridge Gorge.
One of the B&Q Good Woods project advisors, Matt Waller, explains how heavy horses can help in managing sensitive woodland sites.
In advance of the full report of the British Woodlands 2012 survey being released by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a summary article has been published in the RICS Land Journal, written by Sylva’s Alistair Yeomans.
A Good Woods visit to Nonsuch Park, in the London Borough of Sutton, provides support to a community volunteer group, the Nonsuch Voles, and will help in mapping the woodland, creating a woodland management plan, and linking them to other community groups.
In the week that AshTag relaunched to enable citizens to report both healthy and diseased ash trees Chalara fraxinea or ash dieback, was discovered in a thirteenth county in England.
The Heaths Countryside Corridor received a visit from woodland advisor Mike Phillips on 14th August through the Good Woods project. The charity local to the villages of Charing Heath and Lenham Heath in Kent purchased Hurst Wood from the company that owns High Speed 1 after the woodland had been dissected by the building of the new railway. It was bought with the intention of allowing responsible public access and to safeguard the wildlife that has made Hurst Wood its home.
Earlier this year the Chilterns myForest LEADER project was completed. The project was a partnership between the Chilterns Woodland Project (CWP) and the Sylva Foundation. An overview of the project can be found in the CWP’s News of the Woods newsletter and Annual Report.
The Forestry Commission and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) are advising owners to extend their vigilance to ash trees planted up to 20 years ago as a part of work to develop further our under- standing of the impact of the disease on ash of this age. Large quantities of ash were imported from parts of…