Acute Oak Decline, Blogs
Georgina Colman
Partnership PhD with UWE

A few weeks’ ago I visited the remarkable Alice Holt Research Station as a guest of Principal Pathologist Dr Sandra Denman, of Forest Research. I made the journey to Hampshire to meet Alice Dibley who is undertaking her PhD as part of a new partnership between UWE Bristol and Woodland Heritage. Alice’s work will focus on the effects of management practices on Acute Oak Decline.

Partnership PhD with UWE
Blogs
John Orchard
Witness Whitney Sawmills

A behind the scenes look at Whitney Sawmills, based in Herefordshire. This hardwood mill is a key part of our domestic timber supply. Read on for tea cakes and timber framing, to matches and Mebor saws.

Witness Whitney Sawmills
Blogs, Member's blogs
Annabel Stones
Member's Blog: National Tree Week

To celebrate National Tree Week, we asked members to recall the trees they have planted, how they have cared for them, what their top tips are, and what they have made with this wonderful resource. 

Member's Blog: National Tree Week
Blogs, Member's blogs
Georgina Colman
'Wood Rots Like We Do' by Matthew Rosier

Artist Matthew Rosier discusses his new film ‘Wood Rots Like We Do’, which tells the story of the ancient shrines of the Ise Jingu, Japan, and what they can teach us about regenerating forests today.

'Wood Rots Like We Do' by Matthew Rosier
Member's blogs
John Orchard
Member's Blog: Making a Stand By Wilf Meynell

This member’s blog from Wilf Meynell of Studio Bark gives thoughtful insight into the creation of ‘Making a Stand’, a new public artwork in City Square, Leeds which uses Douglas Fir from Whitney Sawmills. To find out more about ‘Making a Stand’, head to the LEEDS 2023 website.

Member's Blog: Making a Stand By Wilf Meynell

Student Design Awards

Student Design Award winners propose different ideas to benefit local woodlands

For the second year running, the RSA Student Design Awards have brought forward novel ways to utilise local woodland resources to stimulate inclusive and sustainable economic activity. In an Award category called ‘A New Leaf’, sponsored by internationally recognised designer and furniture maker, John Makepeace, with support from Woodland Heritage, two quite different ideas caught the judges’ imagination, with the winners sharing the £2,000 John Makepeace Award at the awards ceremony in June.

‘Branching Out’ Leeds the way!

Joint winners of ‘Branching Out’ have been announced as Simon Feather of Leeds Beckett University and Sandra Reith of University of Leeds, both recipients of the John Makepeace Award. ‘Branching Out’ was one of the RSA Student Design Award briefs in 2019/20, sponsored by internationally recognised designer and furniture maker, John Makepeace OBE, with additional support from Woodland Heritage.