by Ruth Pybus | Feb 10, 2023 | Research, Woodland Management
Climate change has put the C word high up on the land use agenda and all of a sudden everyone wants to tell you how great they are at storing it. Sitka spruce growers exclaim, ‘look how fast my trees grow!’ whilst large-scale farmers brag, ‘grassland’s a great carbon...
by Ruth Pybus | Jul 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
You may have noticed from… …plastered all over our website, that we’ve won the Royal Forestry Society’s 2022 Excellence in Forestry competition for the Small and Farm Woodland category. This year’s Best of the Best bout followed five years of regional competitions...
by Ruth Pybus | Mar 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
Basal area is a measure of how well stocked your woodland is. If you imagine looking down on a hectare of your woodland from a hot air balloon having removed all your tree canopy and trunk down to 1.3m (forestry’s ‘Breast Height’ above the ground), you would see...
by Ruth Pybus | Sep 8, 2021 | Woodland Management
The high quality of woodland management at Bron Haul was recognised at today’s RWAS Awards Ceremony. The competition this year covered North Wales. Read the judges report below! If you are a woodland owner and would like to be our future...
by Ruth Pybus | Jul 14, 2021 | Woodland Management
Bracken land gets a bad press. It’s seen as an unproductive weed encroaching on grassland. But with the right management, it is excellent land for establishing magnificent woodland. David Brown shows you how to make bracken a friend of your tree planting scheme...
