The View

Giving into weariness at the end of a working day, arms drop, head rises, senses make way. Celebrating domination of the highest perch, a song thrush answers its own questions. A watchful fox winds triumphant jaws dripping with gralloch from a recent kill. A brief...

Carbon – it’s Contentious

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...
Woodland Competitions – Why Bother?

Woodland Competitions – Why Bother?

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...