Online Events and Training
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Improving your woodland for wildlife
This short course will address some of the ways in which woodlands can be managed to enhance their value to wildlife, and how this can be integrated with other management objectives, including timber production.
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Understanding & growing quality timber – module 1
The RFS is delighted to offer a repeat of a pair of online sessions first run by Jez Ralph in February 2021. In session one Jez discusses how species, form, knottiness and speed of growth affect the quality of timber, in addition to less familiar but critical properties such as density, stiffness and strength. He will consider how these properties translate into the timber products being bought and used every day.
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Understanding & growing quality timber – module 2
Following on from the first session, Jez Ralph delves deeper into how we can adapt silvicultural techniques to produce better timber for the end-user.
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Talking Silviculture
Join us online for an evening with two of the UK’s top experts in silviculture, Professor Julian Evans OBE and Gary Kerr, Principal Silviculturist for Forest Research.
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Free for members
RFS Book Club with James Canton
RFS Book Club features interviews with well-known forestry and woodland authors about their books and invite you to join in online and ask the authors your questions. This evening we will be in conversation with James Canton, author of "The Oak Papers".
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Internal structure of timber
We are so used to looking up at our trees, yet only every take a skin deep view of them. The internal structure of a tree is incredible and complex, much of which we are only just beginning to understand. In this course, Jez Ralph will take a more in depth look at wood structure touched upon in his Understanding & Growing Timber Quality course.
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Thinning regimes and timber quality
An online seminar with Jez Ralph covering the basic foundations of the interactions of thinning and timber quality as well as looking at recent research.
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Fungi and oak trees – module 3 of 3
Part three of a three part course led by an expert team of mycology researchers and specialists
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