We Love Trees

We know how much everyone benefits from trees and woodland. We want you to helps us show everyone else! If you have any photos, stories or experiences to share we’d love to hear from you!

A Springtime Adventure in the Woods

21.04.2013

The weather this past few days has brought the woodlands alive! Full of bird song and snufflings, bees, butterflies, flowers and bud burst. I’ve been exploring…

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Springtime in Exmoor

25.04.2012

..a photo blog of some of the wonderful signs of Spring I have found in woodlands around Exmoor this past week or so.

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Homo Radix by tree seeker, Tiziano Fratus

03.04.2012

Tiziano Fratus, tree seeker, advocates the philosophy that we have roots intangibly linked to tree roots and through this connection it is easier for us to understand our wider connection with our landscapes

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A Celebration of Save Our Woods & the Save Our Forests campaign!

17.02.2012

A year ago today the Save our Forests campaign forced Government to halt their sham public consultation and instead set up an Independent Panel on Forestry… Hen takes a look back..

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Planning and Planting Trees in Urban Communities

08.01.2012

George Arkless is the Chair of the Haddonhall TMO, Southwark, London. Here he writes exclusively for SOW about the consequences of poor planning for tree planting, a timely reminder that we should be following the advice of the Tree Council and others advocating ‘The Right Tree in the Right Place’.

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Happy Christmas from SOW

24.12.2011

2011 has certainly earned its place in future textbooks with regards forestry, conservation and land management in the UK.

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The European Tree of the Year

15.12.2011

Co-ordinator for both the Czech Tree of the year and the European tree of the year award, Hana Rambouskova Environmentalist with the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation, writes exclusively for SOW.

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Chalkney Restored- a milestone for England’s Ancient Woodlands

09.12.2011

Yesterday, 8th December 2011, marks a milestone for England’s Ancient Woodlands. At 11am Professor Oliver Rackham personally felled the last conifer in Chalkney Wood.

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Truro, Arboretum City

04.11.2011

Richard Argall is a window cleaner from Truro, Cornwall, with an ambition to plant a tree in every street he has ever worked in! Initially working alone and off his own back, he’s planted & cares for hundreds of trees in Truro.

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The Tree Year Project 2011

27.10.2011

Natalie Raeber is a Swiss blogger and natural history tweeter responsible for The Tree Year Project 2011, an online blog festival encouraging any and everyone to observe a single tree and the changes to it in a year.

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An Appreciation of Trees by Julia Sorrell

13.09.2011

An artist, be they a stone waller, thatcher, writer, film director or painter, is someone who is able to either contribute to a landscape or encapsulate an element or a moment within a landscape. Artist Julia Sorrell writes exclusively for SOW…

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The Powerful Link Between Conserving Land and Preserving Human Health

10.09.2011

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, writes… “Evidence suggests that children & adults benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy..”

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Ancient coppiced Oak, a portal to another World… Deep Play

09.09.2011

An illustration of how important it is that children have access to natural spaces; the closer to home the better…

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The Ancient and Venerable Tree Hero of France – Christophe Virat

05.09.2011

Krapo Arboricole is the largest independent blog on trees and forestry in the world. Created by one man, Christophe Virat. Here he writes exclusively for SoW.

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Women, trees and hugging

17.08.2011

Trees have made me a better artist and a more conscious person. The more I lean on and learn about them, the more deeply I recognise the absolute bond that trees and humans share..

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What Does Sustainability Mean to Me?

15.08.2011

Si Jakeman, a fire fighter from London, shares with us his vision of Deep Sustainability and interconnectedness…

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Wild Space – Hen goes to Forest School

14.08.2011

Hen goes to Forest School and learns more than she bargained for… #NPPF #Riots

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Thetford Forest Revisited

11.07.2011

Rod Leslie, co-author of ‘Birds & Forestry’ and retired head of policy at the Forestry Commission revisits Thetford Forest after almost 30yrs!

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Gill Shares Her Local Woodland Love Affair…

23.06.2011

Gill Brown, a voluntary warden for the Woodland Trust, shares her love affair with her local woodland…

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I thought I’d lost our trees…

30.05.2011

Hen imagines our British Isles without The Oak to make it whole… Phytophthora Ramorum

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