Today, 15th July, is St Swithin’s Day, the best time of the year to prune walnut trees. The saint’s day is a handy way to remember when to brush the cobwebs of your pruning saw and get out to your trees.Continue Reading
What factors do you think will most affect woodland management in the UK over the next 50 years? Have your say …Continue Reading
Now is the best time of year to prune walnut trees. Enjoy a short video of me at work, high-pruning some young black walnut.Continue Reading
Recently, I gave a presentation alongside furniture maker Sebastian Cox at the Make Good symposium hosted by the V&AContinue Reading
I am greatly saddened by the death of my friend, colleague, and patron, Sir Martin Wood aged 94 years. Sir Martin Wood FRS was a visionary engineer, passionate conservationist, and a prolific philanthropist, who had an incalculable influence on my professional and personal life. I first met Martin when, freshContinue Reading
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Michelle Savill to celebrate the handover of the Peter Savill AwardContinue Reading
Farmers, foresters and land managers, experts and environmental organisations, and members of the public are invited by government to give their views on the future creation and management of our trees, woodlands and forests in England.Continue Reading
Two UK government bodies responsible for the care of trees and forests have released a new tool to illustrate projected climate change for anywhere in Europe.Continue Reading
A new paper published this month demonstrates a clear relationship between the prevailing worldviews of land owners and their distrust in policy, in their willingness to adopt practices that will help adaptation to environmental change.Continue Reading
The Sylva Foundation has launched its national survey exploring attitudes, actions and awareness to environmental change. Take part . . .Continue Reading
I’m grateful to THE ROYAL SCOTTISH FORESTRY SOCIETY and reviewer Syd House for the review of Green Gold published this spring.Continue Reading
I was delighted to have my article about the life of Scottish plant hunter John Jeffrey, and my recently published fictional biography entitled Green Gold, featured in the Spring/Summer edition of Scottish Forestry, the journal of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society. The article highlights the life of Scotsman John Jeffrey,Continue Reading
Silvology: redefining the biological science for the study of forests With co-author Jens Peter Skovsgaard I propose a formal definition for a term that describes the scientific study of forests and woods: silvology. In contrast to other disciplines no terminology has developed to distinguish the practice of silviculture fromContinue Reading
This week Sylva Foundation published the long-awaited report for the British Woodlands Survey 2017: Shaping the Future of Forestry. It’s been a labour of love working alongside my fellow authors. We were victims of our own success in attracting such a fantastic response from so many people across Britain: 1,630Continue Reading
Great to see one of my photographs selected for the cover of the August issue of Confor’s Forestry & Timber News. Very grateful also to Confor for dedicating a page to promote the crowd-funding campaign in support of my latest book Green Gold.Continue Reading
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