Upcoming ProSilva Ireland field day at Glengarrif, West Cork on Saturday 17 May 2014

A lot of how I understand Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry is from attending ProSilva Ireland forest open days here in Ireland and abroad. I'm looking forward to this weekend's day in Glengarrif's forests in West Cork, led by Faith Wilson who helped do the ecological survey at Hollywood last summer and Austrian forester Georg Frank-…Read more Upcoming ProSilva Ireland field day at Glengarrif, West Cork on Saturday 17 May 2014

Tree-Marking skills and software to help us work better for forests

Last week I was excited to take part in the first tree-marking training days for the COFORD (Council for Forest Research and Development, Ireland) Low Impact Silvicultural Systems (LISS) project in Ireland. Hollywood is one of the forests on the database, along with other plantation sites across Ireland that are being transformed, in various degrees,…Read more Tree-Marking skills and software to help us work better for forests