Long-term photomonitoring in Piles Copse
An update to my long-term photomonitoring project of two trees at Piles Copse on Dartmoor, first noted in a publication in 1922.Continue Reading
An update to my long-term photomonitoring project of two trees at Piles Copse on Dartmoor, first noted in a publication in 1922.Continue Reading
Piles Copse is a magical oak woodland nestling at high altitude on the bleak and beautiful Dartmoor National Park in south west England. Twenty years after my last visit I return to continue my long-term photomonitoring of two trees.Continue Reading
Nestling among the barren wilderness of Dartmoor is one of three rare wild woods. Piles Copse is a woodland mainly comprising pedunculate oak Quercus robur. The trees, festooned with mosses and lichens, are rich in biodiversity. It is an English rainforest, and a relic of woodland which once covered much of the hilly region.Continue Reading
When is a forest not a Forest, and a wood not a copse but a spinney? I’ve put together a list of collective nouns for trees.Continue Reading
Imagine being able to describe in three just words the location of any tree or other feature, wherever you are in the world!Continue Reading
For my short story in Arboreal (Little Toller Books, 2016) I decided to write from the perspective of an old man looking back on the transformation of Dartmoor due to the withdrawal of farming subsidies and application of visionary environmental policies. I drew a couple of sketches that didn’t make it into the book.Continue Reading
This week the long-awaited woodland anthology Arboreal was finally released. Edited by Adrian Cooper the book includes contributions from more than 40 authors, poets, photographers, sculptors and others.Continue Reading
I’ve written a short story which has been selected for inclusion in Arboreal: a collection of words from the woods to be published by Little Toller Books in October.Continue Reading
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