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William Johnson
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William Johnson
@RoyalHighlander
Investment forester | Postgraduate (PhD) researcher, biodiversity & ecosystem function | Sustainable investment/finance |Former soldier
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England เข้าร่วม Nisan 2010
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@lwhemmings I think my honey bees can just about reach it!
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Loving the new wild flower strip in one of our local playgrounds. I know some people would be dissatisfied that it's not native, but it's way better than the amenity grass which was there before; and still covered in pollinators.
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Sound on 👂
Rob Yorke@blackgull
Britain smallest bird: a goldcrest dawn chorus 📢 Mynydd Du forest, 5th May, 5.10am
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@rosie_a_fisher And we also need to think about biodiversity in space and time over larger landscapes. The regulator for new woodland considers all these issues in deciding whether to grant permission to plant, but this is never explained in threads, perhaps because they don’t know.
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@rosie_a_fisher Some fundamentals missing from the original thread though. When agriculture stops you can get colonisation of hill land by bird species that were probably not there or in low numbers before. If anything new planting land sees an influx of species absent previously.
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@andyheald @ForestryEngland @forestsandwood @PaulBrannenNE @EnglandConfor @TimberTradeFed @bswtimber Is @ForestryEngland giving up on conifers? Year on year declines in plated areas in the private sector and the national forest estate being actively shrunk? We can build a sustainable bio economy on 1100 st/ha low intervention broadleaves
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Closing tomorrow.
Public consultation on @ForestryEngland plan for 50 hectares of Larch at Ennerdale infected with "phytophthora" .
Important that the next rotation of trees are planned to optimise timber AND access AND biodiversity. 🌲🌳
consult.forestryengland.uk/forest-distric…
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@WoollyMaggot @youngb48 Worryingly she is the chair of the Woodland Trust according to that article
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Imagine writing about farming without using the term agriculture or food. Well @youngb48 pulls it off when lobbing for more trees and forestry policy. No mention of timber or silviculture. Truly stunning! politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
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Honoured to receive TRH on a visit to the London Borough of #Wandsworth to champion the amazing work done @StMarksSW11 by @WandsworthFB. Fantastic volunteers dedicated to helping those in immediate need & referring onto a network of support services to resolve underlying problems
Clarence House@ClarenceHouse
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall today thanked @WandsworthFB volunteers and staff for their vital work supporting the community during a visit to the food bank in South London.
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“I reckon there’s more Sitka in this racecourse fence, than was planted in the north of England last year.”
Aintree Racecourse@AintreeRaces
😆 CAPTION this brilliant shot of John Parrott at Aintree... Reply with your best ⬇️
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@lwhemmings @FutureTreesUK @keeper_of_books @mathilebrandts @TheCemetress @tree_sparks Pruned or pollarded?😉
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@VirginRadioUK stop talking over the best bits of the songs!
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@ArielBrunner Interesting to see what the research is, if it’s anything more than a 150m buffer around existing woodland using GIS. Any consideration of other factors that limit or support establishment from seed?
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Thread on how governments are choosing to spend money on ecologically dubious tree planting rather than promoting cheap, resilent and biodiversity friendly natural regeneration. Same happening all around Europe. #forests
Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole
Over a million acres of new tree cover could be created in England just by letting existing woods regenerate & spread, new research by @friends_earth & @RewildingB finds. But officials have artificially capped support for natural regeneration. Thread 1/n standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-gov…
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@JonnyKerr42 And they said Clarkson’s Lambo was too big…
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Great riposte from @thecoastguy to the mask dogma in the Sunday Times magazine today
Matt Gubba@MattGubba
What an incredibly powerful speech from @thecoastguy. If only I could put it so eloquently myself. This is 5 minutes worth watching 👇🏼
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@JonnyKerr42 @AskBar_Ltd @velcourt Things seem a bit slow down south - picking some good ones in Northumberland already!
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Good to hear @TomTugendhat & @harrybparker on @BBCr4today talking clear sense on our legacy in #Afghanistan & lack of endurance. I suspect US, UK & wider region may regret this move in coming years.
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@lwhemmings @ForestryComm @ForestryEngland @ZacGoldsmith @copseworker @FavColour_Green @AmiesPhilip @Ben_Raskin @domgreves @AliDriverUK @collbradan @andyheald So total area of woodland created lower year on year, as is %of conifers. Is @ForestryEngland interested in growing timber for the bioeconomy? These other stars are a diversion from core FC business @andyheald
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Some extracts from @ForestryComm KPI's 2021:
- 95% of all recorded new planting was broadleaf trees in 2020-21, increased from 90%.
- 408ha of restoration of open habitats in 2020-21, 399ha of this in the nation’s forests managed by @ForestryEngland
Do those stats surprise you?
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