Dan Ridley-Ellis

Investigating the timber properties of species with potential for wider planting in Great Britain - Forest Research

New research in partnership with @edinburghnapier.bsky.social identifies emerging tree species that could offer promising timber production in future.

🔗 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/144588-...

#ForestResearch #SustainableForestry #TimberInnovation #TreeDiversity #WoodProperties

03.04.2025 09:40 — 👍 7    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Impressive - although I think "why is there a hippo?!" will remain the first reason on my list for now.

12.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Since it was obvious that B from common sense this research was a waste of money. The researchers should have worked on something actually important instead.
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Since it is obvious that not B from common sense clearly the corrupt researchers have been unduly influenced by extravagant funding

14.02.2025 15:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you have been wondering why I haven't yet posted here it it is because I was enjoying this being the top wood science post.
[Looks at freezer]
[Looks at spectophotometer]
I mean... I have been to whole conferences about seeing if wood goes red if you put it in an oven.

01.02.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Remember it's the time of year to put containers of water outside for the physics fairy. I nearly missed my bus this morning documenting this perfect ice spike.

28.11.2024 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Walking Woods Edinburgh (Self-guided audio tour) - Centre for Wood Science & Technology This self-guided walking tour leads you through Edinburgh old town and unveils the curiously wood-related history of Scotland’s capital. You can follow the below map, [...]

We're hosting the WSE2024 conference. For this, my colleague Marlene Cramer has made a really excellent audio walking guide so you can have a technical tour at your convenience even if not attending the conference. A big thanks to Marlene & all who contributed.
blogs.napier.ac.uk/cwst/walking...

20.10.2024 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UK-grown birch going bang (EN408 four-point bending test for strength and stiffness)
youtu.be/DbVWpqCgvVs?...

02.09.2024 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have concluded that it is a play on "right man in the right place" (or "for the right place") which seems to have become a popular meme about 1855 in both UK and USA.

27.08.2024 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rowan trees, for all so pretty and lady-like as they look, with their rich red beads, are great destructives of stone walls, when the roots are once introduced into the interstices. We have known a set of these mischievous mountain ashes positively knocking down a dyke; we have seen a single specimen rending an ancient turret in twain; and those who would learn the mode in which the mischief is done, have only to visit the old kirk of Kilbride at present, and see how effectively the customer who has taken up his seat there is doing his work. Let the right tree by all means be put in its right place.

I found it used in several other publications of a similar age, including the Atlantic Almanac of 1873 pretty much as people use it now so I think it was likely in common usage before Mongredien wrote it down... I adjusted my search... Hugh Macdonald writing in 1857 "Days at the coast..."

25.08.2024 19:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nature has fitted certain plants for thriving under peculiar conditions, and, on the other hand, has left but few spots on earth unfitted for at least some kind of vegetation. It is for man, studying the intents and purposes of nature, to discover the art of placing the right tree in the right place.

How about "Trees & Shrubs for English Plantations: A Selection and Description of the Most Ornamental Trees" by Augustus Mongredien, 1870

25.08.2024 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0