Mid Western Forestry

22/03/2021

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30/09/2018

Recent article in a Teagasc magazine, Mid Western forestry planted this land.

https://www.teagasc.ie/media/website/publications/2018/Plant-trees-to-help-reduce-your-stress.pdf

06/09/2018

Many newly planted sites suffered badly due to the drought. Even sites planted late winter early spring have high tree failures. Hopefuly the forest service will introduce a reconstitution scheme ASP.

The summer of 2018's credentials as one of the hottest, sunniest and driest in decades have been confirmed.

17/06/2018

Mean while in Poland....
When it comes to forest and trees, EU rules and regulations that are so often quoted to govern us here in Ireland don't seem to apply in Poland!

New law allows private landowners to cut down any number of trees without applying for permission or even informing authorities

14/06/2018

Mean while in China...

China is planting trees farther than the eye can see.

21/04/2018

APPLE SPENDS MILLIONS ON PLANTING TREES.
At first appearance this doesn’t appear to be tree related. But if you lived in the California area and were trying to buy semi mature trees you would realise that it is. All the trees in this drone footage were only planted in the last year at the cost of millions of dollars.
It is amazing how these companies can spend millions planting trees, yet when us foresters try to plant trees we have to jump through red tape hoops. Only recently we had an objection by an Taisce to planting of 2 ha of broadleaf agroforestry on grassland in a none designated area (land wasn't in an SPA or SAC) ! If the current trend continues the planting for 2018 will be worse than 2017 which was the lowest in nearly 50 years.

https://youtu.be/vA6duo6ddFw

Videographer Duncan Sinfield says " it's only a matter of time until the campus becomes shut-off to drones completely."

11/04/2018

Anyone for Spruce Juice? Maybe it could be our next big agriculture export.
http://ecospruce.ee/index_en.html

28/03/2018

Whilst other parts of the world talk about the hottest decade in a century we have the wettest decade in 300 years!!!

THE years between 2006 to 2015 made up the wettest decade in more than 300 years, with average rainfall across the 10-year period almost double that experienced since 1711.

22/02/2018

How trees are solving farm problems in the Glens of Antrim and generating income.

"The success of the scheme seems to be down to its level of engagement with working farmers."

“We’ve seen challenging times for farmers, with extremes of weather and flooding commonplace. And, essentially, we’re using ‘green infrastructure’ – trees, hedging, woodland and species-rich pasture – as a natural ally to tackle a range of issues"

A five-year tree planting programme in the Glens of Antrim is aiming to build a more resilient landscape.

20/02/2018

Announced today.Forestry midterm Review.
5% increase in all broadleaves and diverse conifer premium categories. See below

Andrew Doyle, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for forestry, has welcomed today’s decision by Government to adopt the proposals arising from the Mid-Term Review of the Government’s current Forestry Programme. The Review was prepare...

18/01/2018

Forest harvesting history in Sweden from cross cut to harvesters!

More here: http://www.skogforsk.se/english/products-and-events/ Swedish Forestry Harwarder Forwarder Development of 60years 2001 16min

12/01/2018

No one every knows who causes our now (nearly) annual wild fires. According to this article, birds of prey in Australia may cause the spread of wild fires !!!

Multiple eyewitness accounts describe Australian birds of prey deliberately setting wildfires by carrying burning sticks, in order to flush out prey