I’ve sponsored a grove of new trees in the Caledonian forest thanks to a brilliant scheme run by Trees for Life. A small gesture but important. Now you can also support the planting of trees.Continue Reading
Forest cover varies hugely across Europe, from 74% in Finland to 11% in the Netherlands. Overall, 46% of Europe is covered with forests, storing 172Gt of carbon.Continue Reading
As part of the research for my book, The New Sylva, I visited recently a remarkable place in Scotland where many so-called exotic coniferous species are not only thriving but are forming a functioning forest ecosystem similar to that found in the Pacific northwest of America. There are …Continue Reading
Next time you crunch or squelch through a rich leaf litter under trees, stop and get your eyes down to the forest floor. Carefully tease apart the rotting leaves, twigs and decaying branches and you may be lucky enough to see some fungal or mycelial cords. Quite a number ofContinue Reading
How to use the simple yet powerful wedge prism relascope to measure the basal area of a forest stand. The relascope is a forester’s tool used for forest mensuration, or tree and forest stand measurements …Continue Reading
Photos of my recent trip to Kyrgyzstan among the walnut fruit forestsContinue Reading
Many people are interested in how big a tree’s crown will grow. It can be important in planning gardens, managing street trees, forest silviculture and in assessing the health of ancient trees. Estimating tree height is very imprecise as it is dependent on so many different factors. However, I wroteContinue Reading
I returned to the ancient ash coppice stool last week, to search for the new growth that I had predicted so confidently in my defense of woodland mangement …Continue Reading
Britain is currently being impacted by a large number of forest fires. With changes in our projected climate, these may become a more common in the future.Continue Reading
Thanks to the amazing tools from Google Translate, I now offer built-in automatic translation of www.GabrielHemery.com in no less than 37 languages; from Albanian to Welsh. I hope that this broadens the international readership of my blog by appealing to more non-native English speakers. If I’ve missed a language pleaseContinue Reading
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