Future Trees Trust

📢 PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

🌳 Can more diverse, complex forests better withstand drought?

🔬 Our scientists are using remote sensing, tree rings & silviculture to explore how structural diversity boosts resilience in UK woodlands.

🔗 Read more: www.forestprotection.uk/project/cfp2...

Thrilled to be involved in this research project 👇🏿

📢 New paper from the Living Ash Project:

Vegetative propagation of ash (Fraxinus excelsior) shows high success from 1–3 yr old material (91% rooting), but not from older trees. Peat-free media performed well; mycorrhizal inoculation had no benefit.

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Just back from the 8th @iufro.bsky.social workshop on resistance and breeding in forest trees. Highlights: 20% growth gain in Doug fir from seed orchard stock, Armillaria resistance screening, and a powerful First Nation canoe carving demo. Genetic improvement matters. #TreeImprovement #IUFRO2025

🌱 What could a National Centre for Broadleaved Tree Improvement mean for UK forestry?

Future Trees Trust and the National Trust are exploring the potential to develop a dedicated Centre at a Grade I Listed Granary.
www.futuretrees.org/news-and-ins...

Join our team - we're hiring:

💻 Digital Practice Lead
🎨 Senior Designer
🐛 Scientist – Entomology
🛠️ Workshop Technician

📅 Deadlines: 8 - 15 June
📍 Various UK locations

👉 Find out more and apply now: forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...

#ForestResearchJobs #JoinOurTeam

Our Annual Supporters’ Day last week focused on the future of ash—thank you to all who joined us and continue to support our work.

Spring hit hard: heat, drought, frost—testing young ash trees & our research. How are you adapting to climate stress in the field?

Fraxinus excelsior updated long-read genome reveals the importance of MADS-box genes in tolerance mechanisms against ash dieback

New article on ash analysis in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social -We're using advanced genetic sequencing to find genes that help ash trees resist dieback, identifying key genes involved in dormancy, flowering & aging, which might explain why some trees are more resistant: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Jobs - Future Trees Trust View jobs and careers with Future Trees Trust - The UK's only charity dedicated to the improvement of broadleaved trees.

Join the Future Trees Trust as a Senior Researcher:

www.futuretrees.org/jobs/

At this years Supporters' Day, we will be providing further updates with speakers from DEFRA and @rbgkew.bsky.social visit: www.futuretrees.org/annual-suppo...

Research Papers - Future Trees Trust Here you will find links to further information about Future Trees Trust and our work

The @royalforestrysoc.bsky.social E-news shared the QJF Editors top 3 features on pests and diseases which includes our Head of Research, Dr Jo Clark's article on The Living Ash Project 10 Yrs On. With more updates presented at our Supporters Day
www.futuretrees.org/resources/?p...
#PlantHealthWeek

Silver birch clone bank with Future Trees Trust selections looking nice… | Richard Whittet Silver birch clone bank with Future Trees Trust selections looking nice today. Some genotypes starting to flush, some not quite there yet.

We can and should be growing a lot more high quality Birch in the U.K. - great work by @futuretreestrust.bsky.social and others www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

📣 20 glorious pallets of tolerant #Ash trees are ready for planting out in the National Archive of Tolerant Ash this year as part of The Living Ash Project.

📣 These 20 glorious pallets of tolerant #Ash trees are ready for planting out in the National Archive of Tolerant Ash this year as part of The Living Ash Project.

A project in partnership with
DEFRA, Fera, @kewgardens.bsky.social
@forestresearchuk.bsky.social

#LivingAsh #Ash

Great British Elms – A New Book | The Conservation Foundation 2nd March 2024 Great British Elms - The remarkable story of an iconic tree and it's return from the brink The Conservation Foundation literally grew out of a project launched in the late 1970s to plan...

Great British Elms has been named one of Geographical-Mag top photography books of the year and is shortlisted for the CBHL awards for outstanding contributions to horticulture and botany literature. 🌿🏆 @rbgkew.bsky.social

conservationfoundation.co.uk/great-britis...

Join us at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst on the 5th March to share and discuss emerging research and technologies in the propagation and production of UK native trees.

We will be talking about the Supersizing Broadleaves project.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innovation...

🌟 Join us for the Institute of Chartered Foresters 'Forestry Facing the Future' webinar episode: Horizon Scan for Threats to UK Forests.

Featuring experts from Forest Research, Forestry Commission & the University of Cambridge 🌲

🗓️ 11 Feb 11:00am - 12:30pm

🔗 ow.ly/7EpU50UBMnu

The Finnis Scott Foundation Supports Future Trees Trust Research Woodland  - Future Trees Trust

The Trust is delighted to receive grant funding of £4000 from The Finnis Scott Foundation, a Trust focused on grant-making in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as the exhibition, conservation and study of art.

Read more 👉 www.futuretrees.org/news-and-ins...

Red Squirrel Appreciation Day is on 21 #January2025. This is chance to celebrate the beauty of #redsquirrels & highlight the importance of their #conservation. Join us to post, like & share images & stories to raise awareness using #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay

#wildlife #nature #animals #mammals