Stuart Goodall

This is an excellent insight into a new modern productive #forest and the important role it will play in providing much needed #timber to secure local business investment and jobs in rural England.
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18.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scotland faces £24m tree planting black hole and years of failed targets ahead Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million

Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a serious funding black hole

Important insight from @timbertreeman.bsky.social

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Article: heraldscotland.com/news/2502444...

21.03.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

'Frustration': Industry that should be championed is ignored or attacked Forestry Journal editor John McNee talks about the feelings of the overwhelming majority of Scotland's forestry professionals as part of The…

'Frustration': Industry that should be championed is ignored or attacked
✍️ John McNee, editor @Forestry_UK

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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2502...

21.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

What a tour of a Scottish sawmill told me about timber shortages and net zero Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in timber…

Inside the Lockerbie sawmill and the challenges it faces
✍️ @vickyallan.bsky.social

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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502484...

21.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A massive budget cut has knocked the forestry industry’s confidence, potentially stalling planting projects and leading to trees being destroyed.
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21.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Scotland faces £24m tree planting black hole and years of failed targets ahead Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million

Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million

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Scotland's Forests: Targets and timber shortages.

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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502444...

21.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Day 3 of the Herald's Forestry series and @brianpdonnelly.bsky.social has looked at the grants and the targets - and, no, Scotland is not on track 🎯

21.03.2025 10:18 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What a tour of a Scottish sawmill told me about timber shortages and net zero Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in timber…

And here's the full article about the visit to the sawmill
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502484...

21.03.2025 10:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The UK has a colonial attitude to timber'
In other words we only produce around 80% of the wood product we use.

For Day 3 of the @heraldscotland.bsky.social Forests series, I went to Lockerbie ook a tour of one of the UK's most productive sawmills

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