A few weeks’ ago I visited the remarkable Alice Holt Research Station as a guest of Principal Pathologist Dr Sandra Denman, of Forest Research. I made the journey to Hampshire to meet Alice Dibley who is undertaking her PhD as part of a new partnership between UWE Bristol and Woodland Heritage. Alice’s work will focus on the effects of management practices on Acute Oak Decline.
A behind the scenes look at Whitney Sawmills, based in Herefordshire. This hardwood mill is a key part of our domestic timber supply. Read on for tea cakes and timber framing, to matches and Mebor saws.
To celebrate National Tree Week, we asked members to recall the trees they have planted, how they have cared for them, what their top tips are, and what they have made with this wonderful resource.
Artist Matthew Rosier discusses his new film ‘Wood Rots Like We Do’, which tells the story of the ancient shrines of the Ise Jingu, Japan, and what they can teach us about regenerating forests today.
The Prince of Wales Award for the top student attending the Woodland Heritage ‘Woodland to Workshop’ courses in 2019 has been awarded to Scunthorpe resident, Rachel Johnson, a timber framing apprentice at the time she attended her course. Rachel is the tenth recipient of this award and had one of the hardest tests to become the winner as three, and not the usual two, courses were run last year meaning that the tutors had over thirty talented students to choose from.
