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A northern forest
There is a plan to create a massive northern forest in the UK. There is a logic behind this in that the UK has only some 13% woodland / forest cover. This is low as compared to the european average....
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Can the UK keep out tree diseases? – a view from Professor Nicola Spence
Recently, I met up with Nicola Spence, the UK's Chief Plant Health Officer: her observations took me on a hair-raising tour of the battlements that keep British trees safe from foreign invaders. To...
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What we have done with a wood of our own
One family's account of buying a their own piece of woodland in Devon. There are many reasons why you might want to buy a piece of woodland. Perhaps you want to use it for wildlife conservation or to...
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Planting trees – millions of them
Following the First World War, the UK’s woodland coverage was at an all time low – just 5 per cent of total land area. The Acland Committee reported to then Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that...
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Planting trees – millions of them – part 2
Woodlands and forests can help to slow global warming and associated climate change (which results in extreme heat, drought, floods and famine /poverty). Trees release water through transpiration into...
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July’s Fungi Focus: Ash Dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus)
Members of the kingdom of the fungi can essentially be divided into the two basic categories of basidiomycetes and ascomycetes. The basidiomycetes form and release their spores on specialised cells...
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20 20 vision for 2020 – is even 20% tree cover enough?
Campaigners say that we need to increase tree cover to 50% and claim it will help deal with climate change. Tree planting became a big issue in the recent general election but it's much harder than...
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“The Scottish Uplands: how to revive a degraded landscape” a talk by Dr Helen...
Checking through my emails, I came across a link sent by a friend to one of the winter talks in the program offered by the Botanical Society of Scotland - specifically “The Scottish Uplands: how to...
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Tree planting – then and now
The Flow Country is a large area of peatland and wetland in the north of Scotland (Caithness and Sutherland). It is one of the largest expanses of blanket bog in Europe. It is characterised by deep...
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Woodland and forest cover
Compared to some of our European neighbours, it seems that our percentage woodland and forest cover is quite low at 13%; as was recently discussed on the BBC "More or less" programme. Only Denmark and...
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