Category: SWOG Events
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European Protected Species Training
European Protected Species (EPS) Training Events Booking essential – £50 per person (including refreshments and lunch) The Forestry Commission is holding a series of EPS training events to update woodland agents, contractors and owners in recent changes to EPS legislation and good practice guidance.
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Butterfly Workshop 30th July
The last in our series of butterfly workshops was held at Combwell, an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) in the heart of the High Weald of Kent. It was well attended by about 18 owners and other interested parties who enjoyed a breezy, but mostly sunny and dry tour of the woods.
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Butterfly Workshop 23rd July
If our last workshop at Plattershill proved to be the perfect conditions for spotting and identifying butterflies, this weekends event was almost exactly the opposite. It was promising sunshine as I drove along the bottom of the South Downs to the event at a woodland close to the village of Small Dole in the Adur…
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Butterfly Workshop 2nd July
Last Sunday saw the first of a series of SWOG and Butterfly Conservation joint workshops. About a dozen SWOG members, owners and other interested parties joined us at Plattershill Wood in West Sussex on a close to perfect day for spotting butterflies. It was warm and sunny with a very light breeze. If anything…
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The Butterfly Effect
Managing your woodlands for butterflies There are over 50 species of butterfly in the UK, along with more than 2,000 species of moth. Sadly, they have all been in decline for the past 40 years, but woodland owners are in a unique position to help support butterfly populations. With just a little work, woodland owners…
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Horse-logging demonstration 13 May
Join us for the visit to Karen Moon’s 9-acre wood at High Stoop in County Durham. SWOG members can enjoy a day in the woods, watching a demonstration of horse-logging and learning about the advantages of this traditional, low-impact aspect of woodland management.
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Malvern Coppicing – a review
Thanks to Annie Vincent for this review of a course at Malvern Coppicing. This course is a must for all those starting out in their woods and for those that want to learn how to manage and maintain it while ensuring that the wildlife is encouraged, too.
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And the winners are . . .
Thank you to everyone who entered the SWOG Big Picture competition. All the entries were wonderful and it is great to see everyone enjoying their woodlands. Our judge, Graham Wood, faced a difficult choice, but finally selected three clear winners.
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SWOG meeting Tortworth Arboretum 23 April
SWOG meeting 2pm Saturday 23 April, Tortworth Arboretum, South Gloucestershire Tortworth Arboretum is a 20-acre site near Wooton-under-Edge, which was once owned by the Ducie family and forms part of the original Tortworth Estate. From the time he inherited the estate in 1853, the third Earl of Ducie, Henry John Moreton, complemented the existing ancient…
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SWOG Meeting, Catterick, 12 September
SWOG Meeting, near Catterick 10am-1pm 12 September 2015 Following the popular meeting in Yorkshire in March, we can look forward to another on Saturday 12 September. Two SWOG families have kindly agreed to jointly host a meeting in their woods near Catterick in North Yorkshire. These two woods, which were once part of the Kiplin…
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Axe-making course, Sweden, summer 2015
Ken Hume of the Oxfordshire Woodland Group is looking for fellow enthusiasts to join him on an axe-making course in Sweden. Participants have the opportunity to make their ‘dream axe’ under the expert tuition and guidance of Lars Enander and Ulrika Stridsberg. Lars and Ulrika are expert blacksmiths, and Lars is the author of Swedish Blacksmithing, a book on…
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Woodfairs 2015
Together with Woodlands.co.uk, the SWOG team will be attending Woodfest Wales, Treefest and Bentley. South Downs Show and Hampshire Woodfair 15–16 August 2015 Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Hampshire www.southdownsshow.co.uk Treefest at Westonbirt Arboretum 29–31 August 2015 Tetbury, Gloucestershire www.forestry.gov.uk Stock Gaylard Oak Fair 29–30 August 2015 Sturminster Newton, Dorset www.stockgaylard.com National Forest Woodfair 31 August 2015 Beacon…