Search results for: “first aid”
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Wilderness First Aid Courses
Andy Sullivan from ELST as been in touch with dates for this years two day wilderness first aid courses. I refreshed my first aid skills on this course last summer and actually needed to use them in a real life emergency the very week after. So you never know when you are going to need…
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Wilderness First Aid – 1st & 2nd Sept 2012
Andy Sullivan from elst.co.uk (Emergency Life Support Team) has written to us with news of their next Wilderness First Aid course.
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Wilderness First Aid Course
Thanks to Mike and Tracy who report on a really worthwhile emergency first aid course they have just been on. Something that everyone doing potentially dangerous things in the woods really ought to consider. I’m reliably informed that no limbs or body parts where actually removed from any of the participants!
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Woodland Skills Centre Courses Offer
The Woodland Skills Centre in North Wales is offering a 10% discount on their woodland and countryside management and craft courses to SWOG members. Please see below for more information about their 50 acre site and wide-ranging activities. Canolfan Crefftau’r Goedwig Woodland Skills Centre The Warren, Bodfari, Denbigh, LL16 4DT What is Woodland Skills Centre?…
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Books: Forest School Adventure
From Living Woods Issue 49 CORINNE MOSS, Teaching Trees Officer at the Royal Forestry Society, reviews Forest School Adventure. FOREST SCHOOL ADVENTURE Naomi Walmsley and Dan Westall GMC Publications Inspired by their extensive experience of delivering bushcraft sessions and of living for five months in the wild with no modern resources, authors Naomi and Dan…
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Phytophthora ramorum in Rhododendron
An article for the Grampian Club bulletin by Dr David Cooke Plant disease strikes at Inbhirfhaolain It is uncommon for my work as a plant pathologist and my mountaineering to overlap but the moment I saw the dying Rhododendron in front of the club hut it was clear we had a problem. I am no…
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Books: The Little Book of Fungi
The Little Book of Fungi Britt A. Bunyard Princeton University Press Published 22nd Oct 2024 160 pages ISBN 9780691259888 The Little Book of Fungi is a new addition to the natural history series that includes The Little Book of Trees, with this one written by American academic and mycology enthusiast Britt A. Bunyard. The author…
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YDMT Woodland Management Programme
In a recent SWOG webinar, Mike Appleton told us about the work of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) and How to Reduce the Use of Plastics in Woodland. Here he describes a new project that supports owners to get more small woodlands into active management in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Nidderdale and the…
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Webinars
Join us for our monthly SWOG webinars – these online events are open to all and free of charge. Sign up via the Eventbrite links below or by emailing Sarah. Recordings of previous events can be found on our YouTube channel. Please also email Sarah if there are topics that you would like us to…
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State of Nature Report
The UK’s State of Nature 2023 report, published on 27th September, documents continuing declines in the nation’s wildlife, with changes in the abundance and distribution of birds, insects, marine life, land mammals, amphibians and reptiles, plants, lichen and fungi. The main drivers of the declines are identified as farming practices, over-fishing, climate change and habitat…
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Books: Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting
From Living Woods issue 39 Not Just for Woodies Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting MacLehose Press Review by Angus Hanton If men have two big secrets – porn and firewood – this book has at least given them permission to talk openly about the latter and…