Andrew Heald

New Forestry issue announcement. Text reads: Editor's Choice: Alternative approaches to forest sector carbon accounting and assessment: a literature review and synthesis by Bowen Wang, Ying Lin, Ping Liu and Runsheng Yin. Plus articles on: Trade-off analysis for multi-objective boreal forest thinning. Pathogen impacts and implications for species diversification. Fire spread prediction models for surface fuels in subtropical forests.

New issue out featuring articles on:

📈 Carbon accounting
🌳 Trade-off analysis for forest thinning
🦠 Pathogen impacts and species diversification
🔥 Fire spread prediction models

+ more here 👇
academic.oup.com/forestry/iss...

Lynx could return to Scotland – but can rewilders win over wary Highlanders? With most Scots supportive of reintroducing the wild cat, charities are focusing on those whose jobs could be affected

Good to see that this article by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social includes a quote from a forest manager (although anonymised)

Lynx reintroductions will have a range of impacts, important that those impacts are understood and planned for.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Thanks for following up on this - the Council also needs to explain why it is letting contracts to a company that is repeatedly posting misinformation and which shows little consideration for anyone living or working close to their sites.

Apply for Woodland Project Funding | Future Woodlands Scotland Discover funding opportunities—Research & Innovation, Ghost Woodlands, Urban Forestry, Skills Development—for projects restoring Scotland’s forests.

Last chance to apply!

Applications close at 11.59pm this Sunday, 1 March for:
🌳Space on our fully funded Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) thinning training program.
🌳Research and Innovation grants.

If you are interested, or know someone who is, send us your application: https://ow.ly/clEN50YmtIy

“Overall, we found that 75% of the currently established trees are projected to be outside of their climatic niche by the end of the century under moderate climate change (RCP4.5).”
Our focus needs to be on the best species and silviculture for future climates. 🌲🌳

A great and informative watch for 20mins. ⬇️
#positiveforestry

Collection of young conifers, and other trees and plants, growing in the botanical gardens

Quick walk through @thebotanics.bsky.social this afternoon.
Interesting to see these two ancient 🌲Araucariaceae cousins growing next to each and compare their shape and form.

On the left Monkey Puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) and on the right the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)

Completely agree that tree planting campaigns need to be carefully planned.
Majority of monoculture plantations are planted to produce timber/fibre.
The article seems to ignore that we need timber, & also criticises growing them on marginal land.
We need timber plantations AND natural forests

Position Announcement : Assistant/Associate Professor
"Forest Genetics, Genomics, & Tree Breeding"
At the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia

Application deadline: 1 March 2026

www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/464...

Save the Date!

On 16th October 2026, the SRUC School of Natural and Social Sciences' Future Landscape Conference will be going ahead at our Barony Campus in Dumfries.

Interested in learning more? Email Conference Chair – Ely Blyth at ely.blyth@sruc.ac.uk.

📢 Next week, the Forest Talks webinar series returns for its third edition!

🛰️ Sister initiatives @forestnavigeu.bsky.social, @forestpaths.eu and PathFinder will come together once again as co-organisers, sharing insights on the importance of #EarthObservation in forestry.

Follow Woods for the Trees on Eventbrite for updates on our 2026 Wood-Wide Webinar series!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/woods-for-...

#webinars #trees #forestry #environment #naturalhistory

🎧Listen to our latest #podcast episode where we talk about a 🌲forest-based bioeconomy🌳!

🌱Our guests Ivana Živojinović and Ricardo Vargas Carpintero from the IUFRO Bioeconomy Task Force explain what it takes to transition to a sustainable #bioeconomy.

⏯️ www.iufro.org/iufro-news/b...

We have to insulate >9 billion square meters until 2050 in the EU.
I don't think it needs many brain cells to realize that this needs to be done with regenerative materials like straw; which is available and cheap instead of fossil, synthetic materials.

So many opportunities for home grown lower carbon bio-materials in a more sustainable future.

And yet these opportunities are often ignored in discussions about land use and net zero.

American graffiti: Spatial distribution and ecological consequences of aspen arborglyphs Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michaux) is perhaps the most iconic tree species of the American West. The thin, white bark of aspen has long been a canvas…

Do arborglyphs hurt aspen? In our newest paper we examined the ecological effects of arborglyphs. Aspen with arborglyphs had 19% faster radial growth, and no 10-yr mortality bump. This is likely because people carve the healthiest and largest trees!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Truman D. Picard Scholarship uplifts Native students like Cameron Macias, carrying forward land-based knowledge. Open to Native undergrad + grad students in Natural Resources, with preference for Forestry 🌿 and Fire 🔥. $4,000 award. Deadline: March 20, 2026.
Apply: app.ezfiledrop.com/5...

#colisummit #bioeconomy #wood | The European Confederation of Woodworking Industries #COLISummit Wood at the heart of Europe’s bioeconomy 🌱   CEI-Bois will join the COLI Summit (23–25 February) as a speaker, contributing to high-level discussions on strengthening the political visibil...

Across much of Europe, there is significant interest in the opportunities of a forest based bioeconomy.

To decarbonise our economy we will need to replace high carbon materials with lower carbon biobased ones.
🌲🌳

www.linkedin.com/posts/the-eu...

Auricularia auricula-judae - Wikipedia

It could be “jelly ear” - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricul...

The future of low carbon construction is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed 🌲🪚🏗️🏘️

Forestry, timber security & national resilience: a call to action 🌳

The UK’s latest national security assessment highlights the risks of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse — and the urgent need for resilient, domestic forestry and timber supply.

🔗 charteredforesters.org/forestry-tim...

🌲 Ready for your next move in forestry? Explore roles on the RFS Forestry Jobs Board from employers like Savills, the Forestry Commission & Robinson Forestry Ltd. Get fortnightly updates by becoming a member. 🌱
www.rfs.org.uk/jobs/
#ForestryJobs #Woodland #JoinUs

Future #ThickTrunkTuesday - Ceiba Pentandra planted July 2024 - Ghana 🇬🇭 🌱🌳

#ThickTrunkTuesday - Bobiri Forest Reserve near Kumasi, Ghana 🇬🇭 🌳

Science Insight: 5 women driving the future of forestry through science – Explained 


 

 




 
 






 

 








Science Insight: 5 women driving the future of forestry through science – Explained

Entries now open for prestigious Royal Forestry Society Awards

Why is afforestation not a global sprint, should this be a thing:
* "I spend all my holidays planting trees."
* "I'd never buy clear cut timber products."
* ...
"There was 6.8Mha of forest growth over 2015-25, but 10.9Mha of forest lost."

www.carbonbrief.org/un-report-fi....

African Mahogany seeds - Khaya Senegalensis and Khaya Ivorensis - being sown now and the seedlings will be planted out in May for the Atebubu Forest Landscape Restoration project in Ghana 🇬🇭 🌳 atebubu.inovaland.earth

'Nitrogen fixing' trees could help tropical forests bounce back, research suggests On the narrow isthmus of Panama, scientists discovered adding nitrogen to the soil doubled tree growth, providing new insights into forest restoration.

www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #reforestation #forestry #climate #climatechange

A study from the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources found that deer scrapes on the ground and rubs on trees radiate a photoluminescence, or glow, under ultraviolet light. The glow may help deer to leave messages for potential mates!
https://t.uga.edu/4agpYsa