News
Filter by...
-
My first month as Assistant Forest Manager
The Government’s targets for tree planting are ambitious and the strategic importance of woodland and forest management, the use of the best quality planting stock and engaging young foresters in the sector are becoming ever more critical.
Read more
-
Building and Living in Timber
Pennerley Permaculture owners Jon and Cheryl Kean live and work 1000 feet up on the site of an old lead mine at Stiperstones, Shropshire, close to the Welsh borders. Their mission to build three sustainable timber homes on the site led to a search for UK suppliers, not always successfully, and raised a number of challenges.
Read more
-
Aiming High: thinking skills in the outdoors
The endless variety that we find in nature provides the perfect opportunity for open ended critical thinking for all ages. Its not just mud kitchens and rope swings!
Read more
-
Forestry Roots – opening a door onto an exciting and varied career
I recommend the RFS Forestry Roots programme to anyone nearing the end of their course; whether you’re more interested in pure timber production or woodland management for conservation, the opportunity to get a foot in the door of such a varied and exciting industry – while having a generous training budget as well – is fantastic.
Read more
-
Are You Good at Silviculture? Part 2
Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor examines the second and third ingredients needed to answer this vital question.
Read more
-
Are You Good at Silviculture? Part 1
In Part 1 of this two-part blog, Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor discusses why silviculture is in danger of being the Cinderella of foresty when it should be at the heart of all that foresters do.
Read more
-
Getting Started: Setting up your Woodland Site
Creating an outdoor learning area on your school site out of an unused corner of trees can seem a daunting prospect but here's what we've learned through setting up numerous sites in the last 20 years of RFS Teaching Trees.
Read more
-
Getting Started: Outdoor Learning Kit
Schools often ask us what we'd recommend if you're getting started with Outdoor Learning or if you've been given some money to refresh your kit. Here's our guide to what's in our kit stores
Read more
-
Trees are complex
Mark Chester MICFor looks at some of the amazingly complex interactions within and between trees which are beginning to give us a new insight into tree health and how best to plant and manage our trees for the future.
Read more
-
Moving from Livestock Grazing To Broadleaf Woodland – a sustainability opportunity?
David Brown uses Bron Haul as a case study to explore whether land use change from livestock grazing to broadleaf woodland could help the Welsh Government deliver sustainability goals.
Read more
-
Sustainable Festive Crafts
With limited use of natural resources from a well managed forest providing a much needed alternative to the consumption of the season, here are a suggestion of the activities that we enjoy at this time of year.
Read more
-
Don’t give pests and diseases an easy ride
Becki Gawthorpe, Biosecurity Outreach Officer with the Forestry Commission, discusses the pests and diseases Future Foresters may face.
Read more