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RFS Long Service Awards 2020
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Little Birds Forest Nursery Scoops Gold
The RFS Education and Learning Award 2019 goes to an outdoor nursery in West Sussex where children play and learn in the woods every day; silver awards are shared by a woodland project in East Sussex where adults with learning difficulties learn work skills and a Nursery Farm and Forest School in South East London where woodland learning is integrated with Early Years Learning.
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Pondhead Conservation Trust in Hampshire praised for bringing history to life
The RFS 2019 Community Woodland Award goes to a site managed by Pondhead Conservation Trust in Hampshire, praised for bringing history to life; silver goes to a Community Woodland managed by Forestry England in Kent and a certificate of merit is awarded to a new community woodland in East Sussex which is managed by a Community Benefit Society and is praised for its long term vision.
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Top Award goes to “Lot 3 Wood” which has transformed an arable field into a native broadleaved woodland
The Small and Farm Woodland Excellence in Forestry Awards 2019 include a small woodland on what was previously arable land, an ancient semi natural woodland and a wood known for its bluebells.
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Judges praise the long term vision at Bramshill Plantation in awarding it the 2019 Duke of Cornwall Award
The 2019 Duke of Cornwall's Award for multipurpose resilient forestry goes to Bramshill Plantation in Hampshire, managed by Forestry England and praised for its long term vision. Silver goes to Bagley Wood in Oxfordshire, owned by St John's College since 1557 and where planting is often the focus of forest research.
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RFS Long Service Awards 2019
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Shere Manor Receive Top Award for Excellence in Silviculture
The RFS Silviculture Award 2019 goes to Shere Manor Estate in Surrey where natural regeneration is abundant; silver goes to Heathlands Copse on the Cowdray Estate in West Sussex where formerly unproductive arable land is now planted with oak and a Certificate of Merit goes to an agroforestry scheme of young cricket bat willow stands undergrazed by sheep at Hole Park Estate in Kent.
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Gold for Geraint – RFS top honour for Duchy of Cornwall Head Forester
Geraint Richards, Head Forester for the Duchy of Cornwall, has been presented with the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) Gold Medal for distinguished services to forestry by His Royal Highness The Duke of Cornwall.
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Sylva Trophy goes to author, forest scientist and woodland owner Professor Julian Evans
A forest scientist, author and woodland owner of international renown, Professor Julian Evans, has been awarded the 2019 Sylva Trophy for outstanding contributions to forestry.
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Forest Resilience series wins James Cup
The James Cup has been awarded to Jonathan Spencer MBE for a series praised for making the complex science around climate change and woodland management accessible to all.
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