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Andrew Heald
@andyheald.bsky.social
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Forester & tree farmer 🌲🌳👨🏽‍🌾🐂🥜🥭🪵 Inclusive landscape scale solutions Regenerative bioeconomy Sustainable cities Works with the amazing Inovaland team Lives in Edinburgh
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · Dec 6
Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#ShowYourStripes

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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 4h
From Forest to Heritage III
Conference announcement. The best conference for those of us who work at the intersection of woods, timber and heritage
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 16d
📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation
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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management @aspectforest.bsky.social · 14h
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This is incredibly powerful and thought provoking.Yes, it’s about forestry but essentially it’s about people. I urge everyone to give it a listen and share it with others. The more people that hear it, the greater the chance of fundamental change.
Mental Health in Forestry: Breaking the Silence
Podcast Episode · Gone Foresting; An RFS Podcast · 10/10/2025 · 40m
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 11h
Despite federal roadblocks, an ambitious agroforestry program is feeding people, cleaning the air, and helping offset climate change.

“It’s not just planting trees. These are community-informed designs.”
Denver’s Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment
Despite federal roadblocks, an ambitious agroforestry program is feeding people, cleaning the air, and helping offset climate change.
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Institute of Chartered Foresters @theicf.bsky.social · 1d
Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that awareness alone isn’t enough. Employers must take real action to support mental health.

@royalforestrysoc.bsky.social has released a new Gone Foresting podcast exploring the pressures of forestry work & wellbeing 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/4oI4...
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Royal Forestry Society @royalforestrysoc.bsky.social · 1d
⭐ NEW GONE FORESTING EPISODE: Mental Health in Forestry: Breaking the Silence
RFS brings together leading voices from across the sector to tackle one of forestry’s toughest topics: mental health.

⚠️ Strong language & sensitive topics.

https://ow.ly/RRHE50X5xEQ

#WorldMentalHealthDay #CheckIn
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Gabriel Hemery @gabrielhemery.com · 1d
Veneer grade timber for the future and stunning autumn colour - more people should plant hybrid walnut. This one ‘NG23’, high-pruned by me in four lifts to 6m. #forestry #silviculture #hardwoods #walnut #autumn
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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 1d
This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d
mass timber single stair tower in france, with family sized homes

this building is 166% taller than seattle allows, and a whopping 433% taller than current 'international' building code in US allows.

also note the spiral stair. also illegal.
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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 1d
This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d
Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A scene in a park in autumn is viewed through a frame of broad-leaf autumn leaves
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Institute of Chartered Foresters @theicf.bsky.social · 2d
Have your say on science and innovation in the forestry sector 📢

✅10-15 minutes to complete
✅Five chances to win £200 in retail vouchers
✅For anyone working in forestry and wood processing
✅Anonymous

Respond to the survey: tinyurl.com/FRPractition...
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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management @aspectforest.bsky.social · 2d
The harvesting methodology for my current coppice site is that the timber product is being cut on one side of the machine whilst all the brash is being stacked on the other.

The brash will then be extracted, chipped and allowed to break down in a heap. 1/2
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 2d
Important time for the sustainable forest management certification schemes and standards to step up
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Kilmaha @kilmaha.bsky.social · 3d
youtu.be/bwXEj2-8QHE?...

And just to drive home the point, here's the link to the video again.

It is incredibly disappointing that attempts at rational debate with a balanced opinion so often decend into insults. Not cool.

#Checkyourtone

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d
I guess the person responsible for Elm Row was asked to replicate the design concept ...
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Forestry Journal/essentialARB @forestryjournal.bsky.social · 4d
Emma Dow stops for a moment and chews on her next words carefully. Sitting on the stump of an oversized spruce, felled moments ago by the 28-year-old, she decides to go for it. “Being in the woods has helped me,” she says. “It’s probably saved my life.”

🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/features/for...
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
The Golden Spruce …
🌲💛
www.earth.com/news/money-m...
Money might not grow on trees, but gold sure does, according to a new study
Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce tree needles.
www.earth.com
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
“Increasing the use of structural timber could help alleviate the country’s housing crisis, which is particularly acute in London and the southeast,”

The best time to grow some timber was 20 yrs ago, the 2nd best time is now …

#PositiveForestry

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Five-day timber homes 'could help Labour hit 1.5m housing target'
Senior Labour politicians discussed increasing the use of structural timber to help alleviate the country’s housing crisis
www.standard.co.uk
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Anna Funk🌻 @itsdrfunk.bsky.social · 4d
Short 🧵:

The Working Woods Hub has it all. It's a place: a woodland where they demonstrate different forestry management practices and landowners can come see the results.

📷: Forest management plots with (R) and without (L) non-native shrub removal. (Cred: Jessica Miller Mecaskey)
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
Your colleagues perhaps need to do a bit more research before writing articles like that.
talesfromwildwales.co.uk/2020/03/
March 2020 – Tales from Wild Wales
2 posts published by Jeremy Moore during March 2020
talesfromwildwales.co.uk
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
Why have you published an article about carbon projects without bothering to speak to anyone actually involved with carbon projects ?
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
“Allegedly experienced” ?
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d
In my experience investors in carbon projects have a range of objectives and interests.
Unsurprisingly the @theguardian.com couldn’t be bothered to actually speak to anyone involved with either developing or investing in carbon projects.
Much easier to just cut & paste the press release …
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 5d
See also … “Fiberwood’s materials are based on wood fibres derived from the side streams of the forest industry.”

fiberwood.com/en/towards-i...
Towards Interior Solutions — Tiina Härkäsalmi’s Prototypes Reveal the Potential of Fiberwood’s Material - Fiberwood
Designer Tiina Härkäsalmi explores the potential of Fiberwood’s recyclable material in creating sustainable, acoustic interior solutions for public spaces.
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 5d
Based on some breakfast googling -

There would seem to be an expectation of reasonable inspection and maintenance - if you live in an older building with big chimneys in a windy city is it reasonable to have them occasionally checked ?
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/...
Occupiers’ Liability (Scotland) Act 1960
An Act to amend the law of Scotland as to the liability of occupiers and others for injury or damage occasioned to persons or property on any land or other premises by reason of the state of the premi...
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 5d
Another example of the link between forest products and a lower carbon more circular bio-based economy.

This is why we need materials engineers and architects in land use discussions.
🌲🪚🪵🏘️🏡♻️🏡🏘️
#PositiveForestry

www.mdfrecovery.co.uk/how-recycled...
How recycled MDF is powering the next generation of insulation - MDF Recovery
Traditionally, MDF could not be recycled, but new technologies make it possible to recycle MDF waste into high-quality building materials.
www.mdfrecovery.co.uk
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