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Views from the SOW team and guest contributors.

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National Planning Policy Framework – What about OUR WOODS?!

26.07.2011

The government has published it’s draft National Planning Policy Framework. Pip Howard explains what the reality will be for our woodlands and what the word ‘sustainable’ really means…

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Carry on Kielder! The Forestry Panel visits Kielder on Monday

22.07.2011

The Forestry Panel visits Kielder Forest on Monday 25th July. Owen Adams Tells us about Carry on Kielder 30p Campaign to keep Kielder forest publicly owned!

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Our Forests; Briefing note 2 – Ancient Woodland on the Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England

22.07.2011

Our Forests publishes the facts surrounding the management of Ancient Woodland by the Forestry Commission.

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Rod Leslie responds to RSPB’s Conservation Director, Martin Harper

20.07.2011

In frustration at not being able to comment on Mark Harper’s (the new RSPB conservation director) blog about the future of our forests, Rod Leslie sent SoW what he would have liked to comment, had he been allowed!

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The Sounds of the Forests – A cry for help

17.07.2011

A cry for help: Protect the destruction of our Urban Forest

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What future for England’s public forests and woodlands?

16.07.2011

David Sulman of the UK Forest Products Association comments on the current situation.
What does the future hold for England’s public woodlands and forests?

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Our Forests meets in London – 12th July 2011

14.07.2011

Our Forests meeting 12th July 2011. The gloves are off!

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The Ramblers response to the Forestry Panels ‘Call for Views’

07.07.2011

The Ramblers response to the Forestry Panels Call for Views. Published exclusively on SoW.

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Whose Forest? Event at Coleford, Forest of Dean

05.07.2011

On Saturday July 9, from 11am to 5pm, the Coleford Festival of Words (in association with HOOF) presents at the Forest of Dean town’s Baptist Church (in Newland Street) a showcase of HOOF so far

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Our new countdown begins today – SAVE OUR FORESTS!

01.07.2011

There are just 31 days left to submit your views to the Forestry Panel on the future direction of England’s forests and woodlands…

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Response to ‘Why Trees & Woods Matter’: Progression or Regression for UK Forest landscapes?

19.06.2011

Soil expert & silvaculturist Pip Howard challenges the Woodland Trust supported report; ‘The Importance of Trees and Woods’ from think tank ResPublica…

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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: The elephant in the room

17.06.2011

Forest of Dean campaigner Owen Adams explores why public ownership of our woodlands and forests matters.

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Today sees the launch of a new ‘ginger-group’, Our Forests!

16.06.2011

Our Forests has been formed to make sure that the views of the more than half a million people who signed the 38 Degrees ‘Save Our Forests’ petition against the Government’s plans to sell-off the Public Forest Estate in England are listened to.

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UK Government Opposes EU Sustainable Forestry Mandate

14.06.2011

Will UK government be the source of a rot that will completely destroy hopes for a pan European legal framework for sustainable forest management?

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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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A Participative Landscape Contract: lessons for the Forestry Panel from Europe

27.05.2011

Alex Lockwood explores our connection to our landscape as a whole and discusses the values of the European Landscape Convention. Posing important questions to the Forestry Panel.
“The public have a right to be concerned with what happens to their own landscape & be involved in decisions affecting it”

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Forestry Commission 25% Cuts – Details

25.05.2011

*UPDATED 26/05/11* Download the FULL details here: FC-Cuts-Presentation-230511.pdf The Forestry Commission will be cutting 250 jobs and the 12 districts currently covered by the Forestry Commission will merge to form 5 or 6 districts. In simple terms… by 2015 our Public Foresters will be looking after larger areas with 23% less of a workforce.  All […]

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Panel opens its doors for views on forests and woods and announces forest visits

19.05.2011

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE FORESTRY PANEL – The Independent Panel on Forestry is today, Thursday 19th May, inviting everyone interested in forests and woods to come forward, share their views and join in a public conversation. Following its second meeting, the Panel is also pleased to announce its initial visits: to the Forest of Dean, […]

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Is that the Forestry Panel I hear?

17.05.2011

There are quiet murmurings that the Forestry Panel is about to engage! Finally we will see the details of public meetings and forest site visits, as well as a call for us, the public, to share our views and offer up evidence of why we believe it is best that our public forest estate remains in […]

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When will the Independent Panel hear views from residents and local businesses?

16.05.2011

Woodlands and forests are not isolated parcels of land to be covered in cling film in perpetuity: just to satiate the (sometimes over zealous) thirst of conservationists who seem to forget that these areas have living, breathing, working communities who will be in the front line of any changes to the management of their woods […]

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