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The Bede Howell Award for Excellence in Silviculture 2023
Congratulations go to our gold winner, Snowden Close near Brampton, Cumbria, owned by Ash Moss Limited, and silver winner, Hovingham Estate, Yorkshire, owned by Sir William Worsley.
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Excellence Awards: 31 March Deadline Approaches
Calling all those involved in forestry, woodland management, education and training – our Excellence in Forestry Awards are back! This year we are looking for excellence in the North of England. Entries must be in by 31 March.
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Forestry Training Fund Announced
A new Forestry Training Fund is available now to cover 100% of eligible short, practical forestry courses to build and diversify skills in forestry.
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Book Club: Prof Julian Evans OBE FICFor
Catch up with RFS talking trees from the virtual sofa with this interdisciplinary session about "Gods Trees; Trees, Forests and Wood in the Bible" with Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor.
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Book Club: Tracy Chevalier & Jonathon Drori
Catch up with RFS talking trees from the virtual sofa about bestseller At the Edge of the Orchard and Around the World in 80 Trees.
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RFS Silviculture Award: Best of the Best Award 2022
This award recognises exemplary silviculture in commercial woodland or compartments of established crops less than 30 years age. Wood production (timber, wood fuel or other commercial products) must be the primary aim. Following five years of regional Excellence in Forestry Award the regions’ winners went head-to-head this year for the title Best of the Best.
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Update from Assistant Forest Manager Peter Borrowman
As Peter contemplates what the future holds he updates us on what he has learnt in forestry during his time as Assistant Forest Manager.
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Duke of Cornwall Award for Resilient Multipurpose Forestry 2021
Coed Caeaugwynedd, Llanfyllin, Powys, has won the award. Second place has gone to the Llanover Estate, Monmouthshire. Certificates of Merit were awarded to Powis Castle Estate, Welshpool, and Shane’s Castle Estate, Co. Antrim.
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RFS Award for Excellence in Silviculture 2021
The Llangoed Estate, Builth Wells, Powys, has won the RFS Award for Excellence in Silviculture. Second place goes to The Myarth, Glanusk Estates, Brecon. A Certificate of Merit is awarded to Largybeg Wood, Co. Tyrone.
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Are You Good at Silviculture? Part 2
Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor examines the second and third ingredients needed to answer this vital question.
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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.
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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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