Tag Archives: public forest estate
Guest post: Tristram Holborn, Forestry Commission
Giving the Forestry Commission’s perspective on working with communities on the Public Forest Estate, our latest guest post in this series is from Tristram Holborn, Head of Recreation (East England Forest District): “My role involves working with many different communities, from … Continue reading
Guest post: Keith Jones, Forestry Commission
Our next guest in the ‘Forests Report: conversations’ series is Keith Jones: “Following Dominic Driver’s blog on woodland policy issues and our 1,000 year view, I thought you might like to see the same take on similar issues but from a field … Continue reading
British Woodlands 2012 Survey
A national survey - British Woodlands 2012 – has been launched, asking the views of woodland owners and managers about the challenges and opportunities facing British woodland. The survey builds on work that has been carried out by Cambridge University’s … Continue reading
Good news from Awards ceremony
Remember Lee’s post about the great news that an editorial contribution for the political website PoliticsHome had been nominated for an award? The Trust’s round up of 2011′s year of forests written by myself and Lee Bruce was up for ‘Best … Continue reading
‘Trees are the filter – we are the fish’
Sometimes you hear someone speak and wish you could share it with the world. They just sum it up so perfectly that it seems a crying shame not to share their brilliance with someone else. That’s why when this TEDx … Continue reading
Deprived of nature
Sometimes people think that the Woodland Trust is just being dramatic when we say ‘Imagine a world without trees’. How totally preposterous! There are no places in the world like that… or are there? When I saw this stark image … Continue reading
Yew turn – a year on
Twelve months after a spectacular halt to the public consultation around the future of the public forests in England. It was late October 2010 when the first emails arrived from supporters, worried about a newspaper article which had revealed plans … Continue reading
Panel misses protection potential
After the storm of the public forest debate earlier this year, there has been a period of quiet reflection for the Independent Panel on Forestry. The Panel was appointed by the government to look at all aspects of forestry in … Continue reading
A sign of things to come?
I picked up on a local wood coming onto the market recently via John Cleggs, the specialist woodland estate agents. Brassetts Wood, 20 hectares of almost certainly ancient woodland in East Sussex, was until very recently a Forestry Commission (FC) wood, part of … Continue reading
