The Woodlands.co.uk Blog - November 2010
Making wooden animals in your woodland
Making wooden animals can be a great project for children and even adults and can be done individually or in a group and you don’t need specialised tools. However you will need some equipment. To make animals like these shown you will need: Read more…
Ancient woodland
In the U.K. about 11.8% of the land is covered by forest, (Thomas and Packham, Ecology of Woodlands and Forests). The amount of ancient woodland, within this, is very low. Ancient woodland is also fragmented and dispersed.
Ancient woodland is a term that is applied to areas where trees have been present in the landscape for many hundreds of years, not necessarily as great continuous tracts but as discrete plots or areas. Read more…
Woodland filming
Finding a suitable location is never an easy task for a film-maker, especially when, as a writer-director, you have such preconceived ideas of what it is that you’re looking for in the first place – in fact, you’re very fortunate indeed if you can find a location that will perfectly match those visual images you had in your head when you began the process. And this is the position I found myself in, when I was struggling to find a suitable location for my latest project, a small-scale British feature film entitled “Heavy Duty”. Read more…
myForest: a service for woodland owners
In April this year, the Sylva Foundation launched a new web-based service; myForest. Interest and support for the service has been encouraging, with some 5300 hectares mapped by 200 woodland owners across Britain, in the first six months. Quite a large number of these are members of the Small Woodland Owner Group. Read more…
A weekend at the woodland skills centre
Our weekend at the woodland skills centre was an immensely satisfying experience. We attended the green woodworking course, spending 2 days making a three legged stool, learning in a process a number of techniques. We began with the raw material, having to split ash logs with a froe, before roughly shaping them with an axe. Read more…
Horse-logging – less damaging and more practical for woodland owners
At the Association of Professional Foresters bi-annual show at Cannock Chase I met a couple of horse-loggers. These are professional forestry contractors who extract timber using horses. Karen Kilshaw and David Roycroft describe themselves as horse-loggers and they work full time with their horses doing a mixture of forestry tasks. Read more…
Owning Regis Wood
I am 76 years old and was surfing the ‘Net’, which I have done for many years now and my dream was to own a piece of land. Apart from many other qualifications, I have a Diploma in Farm Management, obtained at Sparsholt Farming College near Winchester. I came upon a web site called Woodlands. co. uk. I was very impressed on the amount of information and comprehensive explanations on how to buy and manage woodland on this web-site. Read more…
Why and how should you prune your woodland trees?
There are several good reasons for pruning trees in your woodland. Here are some:
- to clear tracks and paths
- to improve the shape of the trees for timber purposes
- for safety
- to improve appearance
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