The winner of this year’s Woodland Heritage Peter Savill Award is Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and until very recently Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
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.
Wild Service Tree seed source trial publishes first report
New trial to make case for overlooked hardwood
The loss of Elm, the inexorable removal of Ash, the pests and diseases afflicting the Oak, as well as all species having to adapt to a changing climate, make the challenge for the grower to choose the best (quite possibly alternative) species to plant more difficult by the day, so is this the time to add the often overlooked Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis) more into the planting mix?