nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Sylva’s myForest service aims to make the supply and sourcing of woodland products as easy as possible for woodland owners, managers and forestry businesses alike. With this in mind, Sylva has now improved the marketing tools within the myForest service to help enable the local sourcing of woodland products, such as timber, cordwood and coppice…
Sculptor Simon Clements has talked about the inspiration behind the OneOak sculpture, unveiled at the Blenheim Estate in January 2010.
Our latest initiative TreeWatch is evolving this month as we start implementing some major developments to the website that lies at the heart of this innovative project. Have you adopted your tree yet?
This years Chilterns Woodland Annual Conference will be held at the Clare Foundation, Saunderton, Bucks. The Sylva Foundation will be represented by Alistair Yeomans who will be giving providing an overview and update on the myForest web service. Please see details and full list of speakers below. CHILTERNS WOODLAND CONFERENCE 2011 THEME:- WOOD FUEL AND…
Today ConFor – England signed up as the 200th entry on the myForest map-based forestry directory. The free directory promotes local businesses and connects the woodchain by providing woodland managers and businesses with a means to link with each other in their locality and beyond. Additionally, the general public can use myForest to find local…
Sylva’s CEO, Dr Gabriel Hemery, will be interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford this Sunday 20th February. The major topic is likely to be the Government’s recent withdrawl of their proposals to sell the public forest estate in England.
Our CEO, Dr Gabriel Hemery, was interviewed recently for the Living Planet programme on German world radio Deutsche Welle. Listen to the Living Planet programme.
myForest users can now print maps using a new feature available on their account pages. The feature allows users to print your area maps overlaid on an OS background layer. This uses the new OS Openspace system, which we aim to incorporate throughout the site in the near future.
Sylva’s CEO, Gabriel Hemery, will be cycling 15 miles through London and visiting three inner city schools to plant trees on 23rd March. He is one of thirty tree professionals who aim to raise money to support important research to battle Acute Oak Decline. He is looking for sponsors to help him reach, and hopefully…
The planting of a new oak forest in our OneOak project was featured in the Oxford Mail, on Tuesday 1st February.
