{"id":7904,"date":"2016-09-07T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:25:41","slug":"congratulations-to-blenheim-forester-nick-baimbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/congratulations-to-blenheim-forester-nick-baimbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Blenheim forester Nick Baimbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Blenheim Palace forestry foreman Nick Baimbridge for his recent Long Service Award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfs.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Forestry Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7906\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfs.org.uk\/news\/2016\/8\/honouring-blenheim-top-forester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7906\" class=\"wp-image-7906 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nick_Bainbridge_RFSnews-300x286.png\" alt=\"Nick Baimbridge long service award on the RFS news\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Baimbridge long service award on the RFS news<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We worked closely with Nick during the <a href=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/oneoak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OneOak education project<\/a> (2009-12). He felled the magnificent OneOak tree while watched by 350 schoolchildren plus invited guests.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back over his 30 years Nick says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe reason I took up forestry was that I was an outdoor lad, interested in nature and I didn&#8217;t want to be stuck inside working in an office. What I enjoy the most is the variety of work we do &#8211; never enough time to get bored but the proudest moment that sticks out is being involved in the One Oak project starting in 2009, which at the time was the most studied oak tree in Britain. I would encourage people to take up forestry, it is a great way of life and woodlands always need managing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfs.org.uk\/news\/2016\/8\/honouring-blenheim-top-forester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about Nick&#8217;s award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Blenheim Palace forestry foreman Nick Baimbridge for his recent Long Service Award from the Royal Forestry Society. We worked closely with Nick during the OneOak education project (2009-12). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_0019.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}