More #HomeGrownHomes 🌲🏘️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This time from Matt Stevenson’s ECOSystem Technologies using Scottish cross laminated #timber #Forestry www.bbc.com/news/article...

Home grown homes 🌲🏘️ #forestry #Scotland www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

If you go to Facebook you can comment on the U.S. Forest Service’s recent post. They’re calling out our movement because major businesses are now speaking up and that’s got them rattled. They’re spreading lies to sell you on their demolition of the Forest Service. Don’t buy it.

The Forest at Merchiston headteacher Davina Bowers and Little Bugs founder Louise Licznerski will explain the merits of outdoor learning and how it can be rolled out more widely 📅 29 April: in person 5-8pm, online 5:30-7:30pm 📌 Augustine Utd Church, Edinburgh Full details seda.scot/seda-land-gr...

Better Outdoors? An event on outdoor learning both at primary and secondary level, and how ScotGov and local authorities might be persuaded to get behind it. An informal discussion with some of Scotland’s top practitioners. 📌 Augustine United Church 📆 29 April, in-person and online 🤑 Free to attend

This upcoming webinar on 21 April will share the latest insights and tools being developed to support more climate-smart decisions. Reserve your place here: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/webinar...

Hard to understand how "temporary" billboard advertising is allowed, but woe betide someone painting their Edinburgh New Town front door the wrong shade of pink ...

Always interesting to see at what point in forestry/timber economic cycles that forestry companies vertically integrate and invest in machinery or "direct labour" - and similarly sawmills investing in forestry land.

Join our BIO2REG webinar “Forestry and Forest‑Based Industry: Advancing Regional #Bioeconomy Transitions” 📅 27 April 2026 ⏰ 11:00 AM 👉 bio2reg.eu/2026/03/16/f... With contributions by @bioeast-hub.bsky.social #HAZI Fundazioa @bioeast-b4b.bsky.social #RISE #EFI @czuvpraze.bsky.social #forestry

Calling all Astro.js developers. My rewilding charity @protect.earth has been trying to replace a horrible Squarespace site with an API powered data centric website. Need a few volunteers to get this over the line. Grab an issue if you can! 🙏🏼 github.com/protect-eart...

This charity has only ever hit the levels of national success on such a shoestring budget from amazing donations from my old tech friends guilty about things like working on overthrowing democracy at Facebook. In these now difficult times you don’t have cash to spare but maybe you have a few hours

Good thread about curlews on my home turf in the north east of Wales. The only way forward is to have more open and honest dialogue with everyone included. Focus needs to be on finding solutions and not just the usual finding fault.

I'm looking forward to Chairing the event on Risk Management on the 21st April - sign up link below

Four seasons in one afternoon in Edinburgh - heavy sleet to rainbows to blue skies

110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Ten years ago made this piece for Newsnight (one of my first!) for the 100th. Hard to believe just how much has been packed into Anglo-Irish relations, how much has changed, even since then. Much for the worse. youtu.be/RmaIOG9-BBk?...

Always interesting when we do/don’t get concerned about even-aged single species plantations …

Fully Funded PhD Assistantship in Forestry at University of Kentucky, United States The University of Kentucky Department of Forestry & Natural Resources is offering a fully funded PhD assistantship in silviculture and forest recovery after tornado disturbance. Fall 2026 start.

"Feds to close Grand Rapids lab that does global-leading research on forestry, climate change" This is so FN depressing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Last fun fact, you could make around 500m3 wood fiber insulation with this. Ok, one more: You could leave this wood in nature to provide habitats and C storage.

“Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions.” Interesting analysis of data sets and research - 2 key points * Difference between tree cover loss vs deforestation * Local context is v important when making global comparisons www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

Drones made with recycled forest products 🌲♻️ Lower carbon bio-materials

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Gifford Pinchot must be spinning in his grave - this decision not only damages decades of research and knowledge, it will also creates major problems for decades into the future 🌳🌲

Today’s tree planting failures 🤦🏽‍♀️🌳 - first two out by the airport, last two on MacDonald Road, Edinburgh.

🌽A study from Ethiopia evaluated four #Eucalyptus species intercropped with #maize in hedgerow #agroforestry systems. See what the researchers found here ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/bior...

This is totally bonkers proposal, it goes in the exact opposite direction to where we need to go 🤦 Restricting timber in construction further would mean we burn through the remaining carbon emissions much quicker. It needs a robust rebuttal during consultation.

This is a shocking move and makes the UK an outlier with the most restrictive policy on timber construction in the world In the midst of a climate crisis, this removes one of the best tools in the box for climate mitigation in the built environment - Timber, a low-emission, carbon-storing material

The UK Government is making a move to try and restrict timber from being used in a significant proportion of new buildings, proposing to significantly extend the "external wall ban" which has been in place for residential buildings residential buildings of more than 7 storeys since 2022.

Postgraduate Research Opportunity in Paraguay: Grasslands & Savannas Conservation (2026) ZALF is recruiting a postgraduate student for a funded research project in Paraguay focused on protecting and restoring grasslands and savannas in collaboration with WWF Paraguay. Apply by March 31, 2026.

Join Forestry England at Bassenthwaite Lake! As a Forest Craftsperson, you'll support the beat forester with various tasks while promoting health and safety. Apply by 5th April 2026! https://www.lanss.uk/opportunities/forest-craftsperson #Forestry #Sustainability #JobOpportunity

The recently published English Land Use Framework almost completely ignores #forestry and #timber production. Defra have all the evidence about future timber demand and declining domestic production from 2040 - but apparently just shrugged their shoulders ... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Here's some more hard evidence for Defra to ignore ... #Forestry

"London Councils publishes new low carbon homes guide." This guide has a much greater awareness of timber and of forest products in general than the English Land Use Framework. #Forestry Why are Defra so unaware/uninterested ... www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/news-and-pre...

The recently published English Land Use Framework almost completely ignores #forestry and #timber production. Defra have all the evidence about future timber demand and declining domestic production from 2040 - but apparently just shrugged their shoulders ... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"Running from 2020-21 to 2024-25, the programme aimed to plant 28,728 ha of trees ... However, the actual delivery reached just 15,268 ha of trees .... and just over half (53 per cent) for trees." Tinkering with grant schemes isn't enough, we need radical change and Ministers held accountable. 🌳

Important @forestresearchuk.bsky.social webinar 21st April - We need to planning and planting resilient woodlands and trees for future extremes of drought and temperature, not only the long term averages. #Forestry www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/webinar...

“The Glenbranter extension highlights how Scotland’s timber industry — from growing forests, to milling, to designing building materials — can safeguard rural jobs for local people and enhance sustainability,” says Forestry and Land Scotland's operations manager Mark Ormsby.

Forestry in New Zealand - across both indigenous and exotic species - sits at the heart of a thriving bioeconomy. #forestry #bioeconomy www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...

✍️Applications for the Young Leadership Programme (YLP) 2026 are now officially open. Centred in Joensuu, Finland, this year’s programme explores how innovation and futures thinking can add local value in a changing climate. 🔗 Learn more and apply: efi.int/ylp-2026

I’m fortunate to live in Edinburgh which has good public transport (by UK standards) and to also travel and work away a lot. After a while it is fairly obvious what factors make a city a good places to live and work. Great to see this initiative @urbantruth.bsky.social

Fun fact (real fun this time): If we set science based sustainable building standards CO2 / resource limits, we’ll be building and reftrofitting affordable, healthy, super-efficient and safe straw-wood-clay houses.

NC26 speaker spotlight Tom Coates MICFor, Professional Forester of the Year 2026 & Area Supply Manager at James Jones & Sons Ltd, shares insights on timber harvesting, supply chains & modern forestry. 🗓️ 19& 20 May 📍 ICC Wales Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AtLmAx_14...

Interesting literature review which confirms the importance of socioeconomics for any nature based solution’s project “Social-behavioral is the most frequently number one-ranking constraint category at the subregion level … followed by Markets … and Knowledge.“ www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Entries & nominations are open for the EIF Awards 2026 to be held at Sheepdrove Farm. The awards are one of the sector’s highest marks of achievement in forestry. For more info: https://ow.ly/VF8z50Y8HOi Thanks to sponsors #DuchyOfCornwall FSC UK #DuchyOfCornwall#PEFC #Savills #Tilhill #TreesPlease #WoodlandTrust

Always recommend reading the British Woodlands Survey - two key findings that demonstrate the challenges facing our woodlands & plantations. "Most respondents not considering expanding tree cover." "Two-thirds report deer and grey squirrels as major or very severe problems." #LandUseFramework

Etienne Davignon, 93, is the only one alive among 10 Belgians accused by the Congolese leader's family of complicity.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Forestry Now: Where Farming Meets Forestry - with Andy Dunne. Have a listen:

It is almost snowing in our part of Edinburgh

Excellent forest ecology insight from ‪@alexanderlees.bsky.social‬ 🌲🦅 Urban landscapes can influence wildlife behaviour even in ancient forest systems. Discover more forest ecosystem studies in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676 #JFR #forestryresearch 🌐🌿🍃🧬