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Sweet Chestnut Health Check: Help Fight a Double Threat
Sweet chestnut trees (Castanea sativa) are distinctive and popular, but they face a double threat.
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How Dothistroma has Blighted our Forests
Katherine Tubby has been part of Forest Research’s Tree Health team at Alice Holt since 2000. She researches the impacts and management of pests and diseases including Dothistroma needle blight (DNB). Operationally, she says, DNB is currently best tackled using silvicultural means.
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Managing and Limiting Acute Oak Decline (AOD)
Oak is an iconic tree. Its timber is one of our most valuable woodland products. Hundreds of jobs and businesses depend on it to some extent. Forestry Consultant Andrew Woods is an RFS Past President and has represented the RFS on the Action Oak initiative.
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Careers Advice: Embrace the Mess
Stressed by exams and big life choices? Does it feel like things have gone wrong & life feels messy? Elle McAllister explains why that might be exactly what you need.
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Oak Processionary Moth identified in Derbyshire
Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) has been confirmed in oak trees in the Long Eaton area of Derbyshire. The public is being urged to report sightings of this tree pest.
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Goshawk as Predator of Grey Squirrels
The Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group has been studying the diet of goshawk using nest trail cameras for five years.
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Look out for Damaging Invasive Species
It’s Invasive Species Week from 15-21 May 2023. In woodland and forests we turn the spotlight on grey squirrels, deer and other pests and diseases.
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Supporting Plant Health Week
The Royal Forestry Society is delighted to support National Plant Health Week from 8-14 May. Managing plant health is vital to protecting our woodland for the future.
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Five surprising things about Ips typographus
Anna Platoni is the Advisory Entomologist at Forest Research. She leads the team answering entomology questions submitted via TreeAlert.
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Facing up to Oak Processionary Moth
Victoria Jackson is part of the Consultancy team at Maydencroft. Her work involves oak processionary moth (OPM) surveys and writing OPM Strategies and Management Plans. Here she discusses answers to questions those with woodlands in the affected areas may need to know.
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Zones Expand to Manage Oak Processionary Moth
Changes to the operational boundaries to manage Oak Processionary Moth (OPM) in London and Southern England came into effect on 8 March.
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Welcome for new GB Plant Biosecurity Strategy
The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) supports the new GB Plant Biosecurity Strategy. It sets out a new vision for the next five years.
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