ProSilva Ireland

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

The little wood that could – Hollywood contributing to forest science in Ireland

The little wood that could -Hollywood had been chosen as one of the representative forest sites in Ireland to be assessed for the COFORD (Council for Forest Research and Development, Ireland) project on new Low Impact Silvicultural Systems (LISS)

Field notes from ProSilva Open forest day at AFI – Coillte site, Rahin, Co. Kildare

ONE of Coillte’s (Ireland's semi-state forest organisation) oldest woods provided a living textbook for Close-to-Nature Continuous Cover, non clearfell forestry at Prosilva Ireland’s summer open forest day.