Month: December 2014

  • Seeing Butterflies – Book review by Heather Martin

    When I first opened ‘Seeing Butterflies’ I was so enthralled by the superb photographs of butterflies and moths that I kept turning the pages treating the volume initially as a picture book, a visual experience further enhanced by the entire contents being printed on yellow, orange and green paper as opposed to the more traditional…

  • December 2014 Newsletter

    Fed up with Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers?  The SWOG newsletter has none of them, but we do wish all our members a very merry Christmas. Escape the madness and read about Dan Gould, arborist and recent convert to horse-logging Living with a log-fuelled biomass heating system Book reviews – Oliver Rackham’s The Ash…

  • European Coppice Conference 2014

    Kentish woodlands and the traditional way they are managed were the focus of an international conference hosted by the University of Greenwich. Visitors from across Europe, as well as from South Africa and Turkey took part in a three-day conference in the heartland of the British coppice industry to learn new techniques, share experiences and…