by Ruth Pybus | Aug 6, 2023 | Research, Woodland Management
Please use the links below to access David’s MSc dissertation (Bangor University, 2019). His research had 3 major themes: Timber Potential – Estimate of time taken for timber stems to come on-line in a mixed broadleaf plantation undergoing transformation...
by Ruth Pybus | May 25, 2023 | Woodland Management
Yup, it’s been another noisy winter in the woods at Bron Haul. Hopefully, it’s not gratuitous. This Nature Friendly Farming Network short film lets you know what we’re trying to do. Farm Woodland Management with Ruth Pybus, Broadleaf Wales (Welsh...
by Ruth Pybus | Apr 10, 2023 | Research, Woodland Management
Stuart Taylor is a dairy farmer, his land looking over the market town of Yr Wyddgrug (Mold) in North Wales. I first visit in May 2022 as Stuart’s Woodland Management Planner, a new role for me. It was obvious as I cycled up the track from the busy bypass to his...
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 Rob Price | Dec 23, 2022 | Woodland Management
I arrived at Bron Haul in mid-November, although it didn’t feel like it, the crowns of the trees still thick with green and orange. Over the month that I would spend here I would see the landscape transform into a frozen kingdom, snow and ice laying over the...
by Dylan Hardy | Aug 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
I’m coming toward the end of my year with Broadleaf Wales under the RFS (Royal Forestry Society) Forestry Roots scheme and I think this is a good time to reflect on my past in forestry and to think about the future that lies ahead. Prior to my placement at Bron Haul,...
