PLANT MORE TREES IN THE BORDERS! Tree planting must be made easier to encourage investment in Northumberland and offer new opportunities in the uplands after Brexit, a forestry summit has been told. Councillor Peter Jackson, leader of Northumberland County Council, told the meeting hosted at the EGGER site in Hexham: “We have the UK’s largest […]Read More
Forestry and wood processing ‘crucial to Borderlands Growth Deal’ The forestry and wood processing industry must be at the heart of a deal to revitalise the economy on both sides of the England/Scotland border, according to a new report. Forestry and Wood Processing in the Borderlands Growth Deal was presented to Jake Berry MP, Minister […]Read More
PIONEERING FOREST MACHINE OPERATOR COURSES A SUCCESS The latest Forest Machine Operator Skills Development course delivered by the established partnership of UKFPA, the Barony campus at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), John Deere Forestry and Forestry Commission Scotland is nearing completion. This intensive and practical course offers four training places and addresses all aspects of mechanised harvesting […]Read More
The largest tree planting scheme in England for more than 25 years was recently granted approval – and will see more than 600,000 trees planted on a site at Doddington North Moor in Northumberland. The decision was announced the day after Andy Howard, project manager for Doddington, described his long battle to gain approval at a […]Read More
The latest Scottish Timber Trade Association (STTA) Members’ Meeting was held in Stirling on 20 June. In addition to the usual Association business, the large number of Members present, which represented a broad cross-section of the timber trade in Scotland, received an interesting and informative presentation on the Scandinavian softwood supply chain from Jason Enticott […]Read More
THE new Forestry Bill must build on a £1 billion Scottish success story by committing to future tree planting targets, Confor said recently. Stuart Goodall, Chief Executive of Confor, said the first new major forestry legislation in Scotland for 50 years must secure the long-term future of an industry which employs well over 25,000 people […]Read More
Addressing Members and guests at the UK Forest Products Association AGM and Lunch, held at the House of Commons on 8 May 2017, newly elected President, Frank Riding made an impassioned plea for more trees, noting the wide divergence of forest policy in England, Wales and Scotland and the differing emphasis on productive woodland creation. […]Read More
The Scottish Government has a very laudable woodland creation target of 10,000 hectares per year; however, there have been concerns across the forestry sector in Scotland about the timescales and complexities of the official woodland creation approval process. Encouragingly, these concerns were acted upon by the Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Connectivity, Fergus […]Read More
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