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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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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Webinars
Join us for our monthly SWOG webinars – these online events are open to all and free of charge. Sign-up details for forthcoming webinars can be found below, along with links to the recordings of previous events on our YouTube channel. Please email Sarah if there are topics that you would like us to cover…
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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…
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Books: Green Gold by Hemery
From Living Woods issue 52 MATT LARSEN-DAW immerses himself in the world of the plant hunters of the 19th century GREEN GOLD The Epic True Story of Victorian Plant Hunter John Jeffrey GABRIEL HEMERY Unbound Digital Paperback: 302 pages RRP: £8.99 ISBN: 978-1789650235 An epistolary novel about the life and times of a Victorian botanist…
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Books: Underland by Robert Macfarlane
From Living Woods issue 52 ‘Geography lessons have never been so exciting, personal or terrifying.’ JOHNNY MORRIS relishes Robert Macfarlane’s wide-ranging journey through the worlds beneath our feet UNDERLAND ROBERT MACFARLANE Hamish Hamilton Hardback 496 Pages RRP: £20.00 ISBN: 978-0241143803 Three-quarters of the way through Robert Macfarlane’s dazzling book, he recounts a conversation with Robert…
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Books: British Forests: The Forestry Commission 1919-2019
From Living Woods issue 53 PROFESSOR JULIAN EVANS reviews a commemorative history of the Forestry Commission BRITISH FORESTS: THE FORESTRY COMMISSION 1919-2019 Profile Books Ltd Hardback 256 pages £25 ISBN 978-1788163132 Celebrating the Forestry Commission’s centenary always required a book and what is on offer is an interesting compendium. It is in three parts: history,…
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Books: Wilding by Isabella Tree
From Living Woods issue 58 Woodland owner and farmer GUY LAMBOURNE ponders the value of wilding as a form of land management WILDING THE RETURN OF NATURE TO A BRITISH FARM Isabella Tree Picador ISBN 978-1509805105 Paperback 384 pages RRP £9.99 If I was writing a review for the back of this book I think…