A synopsis of recent evidence pointing to the terrible damage being wrought by neonicotinoids.
Pesticides Silencing Nature
Environment
The Mushroom Trail
Where not all is at it seems....
Old Man of the Woods
The Old Man of the Woods: a carving of Lord Kilbracken in the woods at Killegar House, Co Leitrim.
Strange Wild Things
Nature keeps giving and we keep taking...
Balsam Bashing…
Invasive species spreading in Rossmore Park, Monaghan Town, Co Monaghan
Nature Blossoming, Ireland
At Rossmore Forest Park, Monaghan, Ireland.. Spring brings carpets of old woodland bluebells followed on by wild garlic. On the few raised reedy islands, swans build nests and in the water signets learn the business of survival.
When planting trees goes wrong…
Planting trees often conjures up romantic notions of bluebell filled wonderlands under the canopy of old graceful oaks and beeches. But this insightful article in the National Geographic explains how poorly planned forestry planting programmes can do more harm than good. With specific reference to the fires in North America...
A Little Piece of Coppice at Coulmore, Formerly on the Redcastle Estate — NOSAS Archaeology Blog
By Jonathan Wordsworth Cycling regularly along the north shore of the Beauly Firth from North Kessock to Tarradale, I have noted just past Coulmore Point a small patch of woodland with a collection of twisted multi-stemmed trees. Consisting predominantly of oak but with a mixture of species including ash and beech, the trees are widely […] … Continue reading A Little Piece of Coppice at Coulmore, Formerly on the Redcastle Estate — NOSAS Archaeology Blog
Forestry Field Trip: Continuous Cover Forestry
Transition Monaghan members Liam Murtagh and Dermot McNally recently attended a Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) field day in Navan, Co Meath, Ireland. CCF, also known as Close to Nature Forestry is rightly hailed as the panacea to the ecological pitfalls of conventional forestry which is dominated by even aged monocultures managed by clear fell. The … Continue reading Forestry Field Trip: Continuous Cover Forestry
First two Pro Silva Ireland Continuous Cover Forestry Training Days a Success
Forestry for a better world…
Pro Silva Ireland members Anna and Brian Browne host the first two Continuous Cover Forestry training days in Co. Kildare.
We’ve had great feedback on our first courses. Anna and Brian Browne attended both courses and we asked them for their comments about how they got into forestry and what they learnt from Pro Silva Ireland’s first Continuous Cover Forestry training days.SouthCarlowForest contractor and forestry student Sean Hoskins also relates his take from the training too!
Becoming a forest owner: Anna Browne
Pro Silva Ireland members Anna and Brian Browne generously provided their forest plantation site for the first Pro Silva Ireland Continuous Cover Forestry training days.
Anna has been a member of Pro Silva Ireland for many years, and when asked about the possibility of running a CCF course in the forest, she and her husband Brian were delighted to accommodate. Anna went along to…
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