Category: SWOG Events
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Free tree health seminars, East & East Midlands
FREE TREE HEALTH SEMINARS The Forestry Commission is holding three Tree Health Seminars in July for those with an interest in forestry. Each indoor seminar will be led by Forest Research scientists, who will provide the latest findings on a range of current tree pests and diseases, as well as horizon scanning some potential threats. The seminar…
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Heartwoods – bringing woodlands into management
Will Tomkins from the Small Woods Association has sent us information on a scheme which would help owners of unmanaged wood in the West Midlands. For more detals contact the number below directly.
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Meeting at Marston Vale – 2nd March 2014
Marston Thrift is a community ASNW woodland on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It has been worked by a dedicated group of volunteers since 1973 and it is thanks to them that the woodland has been brought back into management and now thrives. The Wardens of Marston Thrift, Clive and Angela Bucknall, have kindly…
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See the woods from the trees at Plumpton College
The Wood Enterprise Centre is hosting a free day of information and advice around the subject of woodfuel on Tuesday 29th October at at Plumpton College at Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell, East Sussex,TN5 7PR. There will be speakers from the woodfuel industry, and advice on how to apply for grants, as well as demonstrations of…
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Deer Management Course
Matt Pitts, the woodland office for the High Weald AONB has sent us news of a deer management workshop in November in the Bedgebury Forest Centre. Anyone who has woodland in this area will be aware of the large number of deer. Download the flyer for full details of the programme for the day,…
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Bulworthy Project – SWOG meeting
Many thanks go to Pete and Anna of the Bulworthy Project in Devon for extending such a warm welcome to SWOG members by hosting a meeting at Henson’s wood . Pete and Anna have set up a charcoal making business and were kind enough to show us their method and explain the theory…