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Here's a reminder that commercially managed forests are not all "dead zones". Have a good weekend everyone.
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Michael J.Steed
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Michael J.Steed
@MichaelSteed7
Chartered Forester and Director at Tree Planet Consulting. Bass Player. Dad. Biker.
South West England Katılım Aralık 2014
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Scruffy, Drinkie, Smirky and Leaky - aka The Spite Girls
Stolen from Facebook...
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Defra have finally updated their webpage to include growing timber as a reason for planting trees.
Defra UK@DefraGovUK
Calling all farmers and land managers. 📣 Diversify your land with #WoodlandCreation and receive expert guidance every step of the way! Find out about the woodland creation offer 👉 woodlandcreation.campaign.gov.uk/?utm_source=TW…
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If we want to build houses like this⬇️then we need to grow more timber.
Majority of that timber will NOT come from hedges & edges, or from broadleaved trees planted at 3 metre centres, or agroecology, or rewilding.
Most of it will be from conifer plantations🌲
just another tree hugger@kavita_bp
An open source building that’s a carbon sink, that’s what’s up. Big congrats to @WikiHouse team for their #Skylark edition. What a privilege to have helped assemble this sustainable and democratic building tech yesterday & eventually showcase it to Birmingham too @CIVIC_SQUARE
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Spanish police talking to lamas wearing face masks…😳 Ok got it
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If you own or manage woodland, act now to help mitigate against more extreme climate projections expected up to the end of the century. 🍃
Read our advice on how to manage woodlands in England in a climate emergency 👉 gov.uk/government/pub…. #TogetherForOurPlanet
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@stuglen @NatForestCo Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Still perpetuating the view of foresters as ‘ecological vandals’. When will it end ?
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Expanding commercial conifer forestry is the most efficient strategy for achieving climate change mitigation through woodland creation
Let me explain (thread).
@BUForestry @WKWales @dymond_c @ENVISIONDTP @natcomms
#NetZero #forestry #ClimateChange nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Could we be growing more Paulownia as a very short rotation forestry crop ?
BioEconomy Solutions@Algae4Gas
What Can You Make With Paulownia? Products Made With Paulownia Tree Wood - Need a quiet space? Check out another great item made from Kiri-Koubou workshop @Kiri-Koubou fukuoka-now.com/en/a-paulownia… #MegaFlora #paulowniatree #paulowniawood #paulowniatimber #Kiri-Koubou #empresstree
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Temperate Rainforest. Polypody ferns adorning Sessile oak. Cornwall UK
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BBC News - UK government backs birth control for grey squirrels
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
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Still in need of some holiday reading and interested in biodiversity and forest management? Check out this new book on how to balance forestry and conservation, edited by colleagues from @europeanforest and @WSL_research. Download a copy for free here: forbiodiv.org
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@GeorgeMonbiot Great for biodiversity... but forests need to provide the timber society needs for building to replace unsustainable materials like concrete, steel etc. but to achieve this requires right species in right place at right stocking density. Not (always) just left to chance.
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Important new report.
While everyone became fixated on tree *planting*, we lost sight of the vast potential for *natural regeneration* of forests.
Establishing woodlands this way can be cheaper, faster, wilder, richer.
And it needs no plastic guards or glyphosate.
Rewilding Britain@RewildingB
Tree planting has become a go-to option but natural regeneration has a key role to play in reforesting Britain. 🌳 Natural regen will happen on a large scale if we allow it 🦋 Natural regen brings additional biodiversity & climate benefits Our new report: rewildingbritain.org.uk/reforesting-br…
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This is why managed forests are so important. Management interventions - whether it is cutting coppice or commercial harvesting - replicate natural disturbance and allow scrub / open ground species to exploit. Over a large forest there will be many such areas at any given time:
Alex Lees@Alexander_Lees
Great to see this pledge which is certainly a step in the right direction. The image does illustrate another issue though - which is the binary nature of UK landscapes - 'field' or 'wood', without the intervening successional scrub which is important for many threatened species.
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Here Here!! Get your facts straight first...🙄
Andrew Heald@andyheald
The reason I get frustrated with journalists not bothering to speak to professional foresters, is because when @guardianeco publishes these 2 stories 24 hrs apart by @lukeharding1968 & @patrick_barkham nobody seems to really make the connection ....
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