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Songs to Sing in a Wood
These are some of our favourite songs at Teaching Trees. Great for teaching children about forestry and woodland management with tunes that you’ll already know!
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“Transformative”- Sam’s Forestry Roots post
After graduating with a Level 3 Forestry and Arboriculture higher national diploma at Hadlow College, Sam Ozaktanlar was finding it hard to enter a relatively small yet exceedingly competitive industry at a trainee level whilst also supporting himself financially - until he was recommended the RFS Forestry Roots programme.
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Speech and Language: finding our voices in woodland
One of our Education Officers recently ran a session that highlighted another string to the already impressive bow of outdoor learning benefits: an opportunity to focus on speech and language targets.
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Forest soil ecosystem services
Following on from his blog on Six Things to Know about Forest Soils, Andy Moffat has picked up on the theme of forest soil ecosystem services.
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My Forestry Roots Experience -so far!
The Forestry Roots project was just the graduate opportunity that I was looking for, says Katie Stevens after her first six months in the role.
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20 Books for Woodland Learning
Our Teaching Trees Education Officers have taken a break from running free woodland visits to come together and decide on their top twenty books for inspiring imaginations and creativity when visiting a forest.
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Planting for diversity
Tony Bird is passionate about planting a diverse range of tree species on his estate in Warwickshire after seeing the devastation left by Dutch Elm disease and encountering ash die back and cankers and blight on horse chestnuts.
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Recognising Deer Damage
Deer management expert Patrick Faulkner talks about the increase in deer he has witnessed, when deer pose the greatest threats to motorists and how to recognize the level of deer damage in a woodland.
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