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Institute of Chartered Foresters @theicf.bsky.social · 2h

Have your say on science and innovation in the forestry sector 📢

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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management @aspectforest.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 18h

Important time for the sustainable forest management certification schemes and standards to step up

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Kilmaha @kilmaha.bsky.social · 1d

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

@royalforestrysoc.bsky.social
@wtscotsocial.bsky.social

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Why have you published an article about carbon projects without bothering to speak to anyone actually involved with carbon projects ?

Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 2d

“Allegedly experienced” ?

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 2d

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 …

Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d

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.

fiberwood.com

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d

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...

www.legislation.gov.uk

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d

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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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d

Clear case law for trees to be regularly inspected by competent individuals, I assume the same must be true for chimneys ?

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 3d

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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Royal Forestry Society @royalforestrysoc.bsky.social · 4d

Most people in forestry know someone affected by mental health.
#CheckIn
#CheckYourTone
#EveryInteractionMatters

https://youtu.be/bwXEj2-8QHE?si=EPEH2p8lX1YO_l1c

#MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Forestry #Arb
#Confor #FISA #ForestryContractingAssociation #ICF #ForestryCommission

Every Interaction Matters: Mental Health in Forestry

Most people working in forestry know someone who has been severely affected by issues surrounding mental health.It's not always the big things.Sometimes it's...

youtu.be

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a fine line (of perception) between land abandonment and rewilding …

Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure of the full details of the case but I’d suggest that “Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)” does require tractor to be in a “safe condition” www.hse.gov.uk/work-equipme...

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Institute of Chartered Foresters @theicf.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder to respond to this science and innovation in forestry sector survey📝

✔️10-15 minutes to complete
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✔️For anyone working in forestry and wood processing
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Complete the survey here: tinyurl.com/FRPractition...

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Woodknowledge Wales @woodknowledgewales.bsky.social · 8d

🌳If you want to make a difference and help tackle climate change in your career, think about forestry! 🌳

www.instagram.com/reel/DPO3tu3...

#ForestryCareers #ClimateAction #ClimateChangeAwareness

cymruclimate on Instagram: "🌲Os ydych chi eisiau gwneud gwahaniaeth a helpu i fynd i'r afael â newid yn yr hinsawdd yn eich gyrfa, meddyliwch am goedwigaeth! …"

🌲Os ydych chi eisiau gwneud gwahaniaeth a helpu i fynd i'r afael â newid yn yr hinsawdd yn eich gyrfa, meddyliwch am goedwigaeth! 🌳If you want to make a difference and help tackle climate change in your career, think about forestry!Dyma rai pobl go iawn sy'n gweithio yn y sector i ddweud wrthych chi bopeth amdano. 👋Here are some real people working in the sector to tell you all about it.👋 #ForestryCareers #Coedwigaeth #NewidHinsawdd #ClimateAction #GreenJobs #CymunedCoedwig

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EUROPE SAYS @europesays.bsky.social · 5d

Forestry investment return in Finland rises to 14.9% in 2024

https://www.europesays.com/2463524/

The real return on investment in wood production in non-industrial private forestry in Finland reached 14.9% in 2024,…

Forestry investment return in Finland rises to 14.9% in 2024 - EUROPE SAYS

The real return on investment in wood production in non-industrial private forestry in Finland reached 14.9% in 2024, up four percentage points from the

www.europesays.com

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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 5d

Belgian style beer in Accra 🇬🇭

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