{"id":9543,"date":"2020-07-06T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:00:32","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-forester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/welcome-to-our-new-forester\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our new Forester"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>We&#8217;re delighted to welcome George Dennison to Sylva as a new member of staff taking up the new role of Forester.<\/h4>\n<p>Thanks to grant funding provided by the John Ellerman Foundation the new position of Forester at Sylva will mean we have more capacity to work with landowners, forestry professionals, and partners to support sustainable forestry across Britain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9545\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9545\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9545\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020-300x300.png\" alt=\"George Dennison, Forester at Sylva Foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020.png 532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Dennison, Forester at Sylva Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Appointee George Dennison graduated this summer from Bangor University with a Masters in Forestry with International Experience, including a year abroad at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>While studying George became a board member of the International Forestry Students\u2019 Association where he was fortunate enough to travel to several countries exploring the world through forestry. Having worked as a part-time arboriculturalist and land manager between semesters, he is keen to begin putting theory and policy into practice across the UK in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to welcome George Dennison to Sylva as a new member of staff taking up the new role of Forester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,181,342],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Dennison-2020.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543"}],"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=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}