nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Our pilot of the TreeWatch initiative has been progressing well over the summer. About 50 horse chestnut trees have been adopted and surveyed across the UK, and one in the south of France. Volunteers from the Tree Council and EarthWatch have been asked to help us develop and test the website, and to tell us…
We are looking forward to exhibiting at the APF 2010 show between 23-25 September. The APF is the forest industry’s showcase and typically attracts over 15,000 visitors. Read more. With thanks to our partners ConFor for allowing us to share their stand (Stand I 1&2 – next to the PoleClimbing) to jointly promote the myForest…
In May we launched an online competition to Guess the Weight of the OneOak tree – read more. The competition closed at the end of August and we have one lucky winner who will receive a beautiful hand-carved bowl, made by master craftsman Martin Damen (see Martin Damen’s website). The winning answer of 14.662 tonnes…
Today a major milestone was met by our myForest Service when the area of woodlands mapped exceeded 3000 hectares across the country. This represents only a small proportion of woodlands in Britain (about 0.1% of the 3 million hectares of forest) but this is a promising sign that the service is viewed as a valuable…
Ed Coate is working with the Sylva Foundation and the Oxfordshire Woodland Project to deliver the Southern Oxfordshire LEADER project. The project is aiming to enhance the forestry sector in Southern Oxfordshire and has been supported by a LEADER grant. Read more about the project Ed has an extensive background in woodland and land management,…
The bowl hand carved by master craftsman Martin Damen is nearing completion. The bowl is one of the first items to be made from the OneOak tree. Martin has generously donated the bowl as first prize in our competition this summer. Carving is now complete but the bowl must finish is naturally drying process before…
Judges for the Royal Forestry Society’s excellence in forestry award 2010 decided that the outright winner was Bladon C of E Primary School near Woodstock for their work in the OneOak project with the Sylva Foundation. The children and school will be presented with the award at the Bentley Wood Fair near Lewes on Friday…
Kathy Norman will be working with the Sylva Foundation over the next few months. She is studying for a Post-Graduate Diploma in Natural Resources Management at Cranfield University and will be working on her dissertation, looking at the effect of proposed Government subsidies for woodfuel on UK woodland management. Kathy studied chemistry at Oxford University…
We have published our Annual Review for the year 2009-10. It is available for download as a pdf.
The Tree Council, one of our partners in TreeWatch, has published an article encouraging volunteers to get involved. You can read it here
