Jocelyn McLaren visits Japan
Jocelyn McLaren, a student at University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), visited Japan. Jocelyn reports on her visit. Same problem, different answer It is amazing that across the world, we have such similar issues in terms of environmental sustainable development. While our issues may be similar, each country seemed to have a different solution. I […]
Urban Tree Establishment
TreePans is a sponsor of the 2018 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). With a continued push to plant more trees across the country, its never been a more difficult time to establish trees in our urban environment. As an urban forester, I always struggled to keep my trees mulched and watered and also the grounds teams […]
Bellway Homes TreeBunker
Wrekin Products is a sponsor of the 2018 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). The Holmwood Park development of new homes in Ferndown, Dorset, has been created by Bellway Homes Ltd on a site surrounded by large green spaces including 1,000 acres of stunning parkland and forest. The aim of the new residential development was to create an […]
Can Impact Investing Impact Forestry?
Hester Robertson, Founder of CloudForest, explains how impact investing can impact forestry. Hester previously worked for BG Group as a Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst. CloudForest is on a mission to create resilient, productive forests that people can enjoy. By crowdfunding forestry projects, the company will open the door to small-scale investors who want to see more […]
Andrew Heald MICFor visits Uganda
Chartered Forester Andrew Heald MICFor, Technical Director at Confor, visited Uganda. Andrew reports on his visit. A ‘blended return’ sounds like something you might order in one of Edinburgh’s many hipster coffee shops, but it was something I heard repeatedly on a recent WWF NGP study tour in Uganda. Uganda certainly has great coffee, but […]
Innovation on the southern pine forestry frontier
2017 Silvicultural Prize winner Dr Don C. Bragg explains Innovation on the southern pine forestry frontier. The lumber industry in the southeastern United States came of age during a period of rapid industrialization and population growth in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and southern forests produced billions of cubic meters of hardwood, cypress, and pine […]
Interview with Provincial Leader at FPInnovations
Speaker Day 1: The Main Challenges of Developing Autonomous Equipment in Forestry The Institute interviews John Pineau as he prepares to address the Institute’s forthcoming National Conference: Innovation for Change. What innovation means to FPInnovations/what innovative development(s) it is working on? Innovation is pervasive to our corporate culture at FPInnovations. We are always striving to find new […]
UK Food Security is not dependant on the maintenance of upland farming
Chartered Forester Jim Reilly MICFor, PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, explains food security. What is security? Food security is a complex subject and it is perhaps helpful if we start by considering what is meant by security. Security can be a disputed concept, because it means different things to different people. However, one […]
Looking back at looking forwards
Speaker Day 1: Future paths/drawing from other sectors The Institute interviews Fiona Lickorish, formerly Head of the Cranfield Institute for Resilient Futures at Cranfield University, as she prepares to address the Institute’s forthcoming National Conference: Innovation for Change. What piece of advice would you give yourself if you could turn the clock back 20+ years? […]
Plastic with a purpose
Associate member Simon Place, Account Manager at Tubex, explains how plastic still has a vital role to play in forestry. I read with great interest Stuart Wilkie’s FICFor CEnv recent blog on forest plastic. The first thing that struck me after reading it was why nobody had really written about this subject before? The BBC show […]