Although a woodland can be a quiet and relaxing place for contemplation and give the impression of "time standing still", once again our plantations have given us…
Asked to summarise my six months with Mike Abbott in Brookhouse Wood, I would say it was a near-vertical learning curve that I nearly fell off on a couple of occasions.
With the sad and premature death of Alan Cobb of Euroforest, his friends and family wanted to create a living memorial to a man who had been in forestry all his life.
A hectare of agricultural land at the top of a southwest slope became available after the wheat harvest. Its elevation was 150 metres and was basically clay with flint over chalk.
Walter Start is at the top of the tree professionally and in December 2003, to mark 50 years managing the Froyle woodlands and 56 years in the forestry industry…
I have always loved the countryside, so why not try and improve it by putting something back? Perhaps I could, at the same time, make an investment for future generations of my family.
