Articles

Views from the SOW team and guest contributors.

If you would like to see your article published on Save Our Woods, please get in touch, we’d love to know your opinion too.

The English landscape has been stolen

04.05.2011

If the public forest estate is taken from us, will the next fight be against the NGOs?

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The Decline of Traditional Skills and Our English Hedgerows

14.04.2011

Both the hedgerow and those that can build, plant and maintain them are in decline. This is in spite of their being quintessential attributes in the English landscape…

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15% Forest sell off – Secretary of State Clarifies

01.04.2011

Secretary of State clarifies the details of the 15% forest sell off.

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Access all areas? by Sarah Walters

31.03.2011

Sarah Walters, Alvecote Wood, shares her thoughts on the effects of public access to her private woodland.

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The Forestry Panels’ first meeting

30.03.2011

This Forestry Panel wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the recent, extraordinary, public outcry. We can’t think of one reason their work shouldn’t be transparent…

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Tree Health Threats

23.03.2011

Our trees are not only under threat from, among other things, sale, fragmentation, the high speed rail link, bio-fuel, quarrying, climate change or poor management. They are also under the very real threat of decline from serious pests and diseases.

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Forest Lovers Celebrate in Friston Forest

21.03.2011

Hot off the press from Sussex Keep Our Forests Public, the organisers of Sunday’s celebration in Friston Forest in East Sussex. A great day was had by all!

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Analysis of Rod Leslies’ Forests for the Future paper

21.03.2011

Analysis of retired Forestry Commission, head of policy, Rod Leslies’ paper – Forests of the Future.

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Save Our Woods celebrates at Friston Forest

19.03.2011

Nick and Gertie are heading to Friston Forest tomorrow for Celebrate Our Forests Day. Come and say hello!

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Celebrate Our Forests Day!

19.03.2011

One of the things the Save Our Forests campaign has highlighted is how much we love our forests and woodland. To celebrate this, Sunday the 20th March has been declared Celebrate Our Forests Day. Why not get out enjoy it?

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‘Independent’ Panel members announced

17.03.2011

The government have finally announced the members of the panel and their terms of reference…

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How Many Seats on the Independent Panel?

11.03.2011

As previously published by SOW (24th Feb 2011 How will the Public Voice be Heard on the Independent Panel), it appeared that the panel would only have five seats. However, following numerous requests from campaign groups, individuals, and other interested parties to have a voice on the panel, the government may have realised that five […]

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Case Studies

10.03.2011

In reaction to the case studies presented within, among others, the consultation document and the Adam Smith Institutes briefing paper; ‘The Forestry Commission’s Place in Modern Britain’, Pip Howard issues a stark warning… “Both within the consultation document, now void, and subsequent published argument which is contrary to the general opinions held by those who lobbied […]

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The Independent Panel

09.03.2011

“we are now setting up an independent panel on forestry that will consider the whole future direction of policy for England’s woods and forests.” Lord Henley, House of Lords Forest debate In a week or two the chairman of the independent panel will be announced, shortly afterwards the names of those on the panel will be released. […]

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Do YOU Remember the Save Our Forests Campaign?

09.03.2011

Was it really very long ago that we were all rallying in our local woods, starting campaigns, tweeting, facebooking and blogging ourselves to exhaustion about the Public Bodies Bill and the Public Forest Sell Off? What’s happening now?

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Dr Oliver Rackham joins the discussion in the Future of our Woodlands

08.03.2011

We are incredibly lucky to be able to share with you a correspondence from Dr Oliver Rackham, OBE, a leading authority on trees and woodlands.

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A Strategy for Urban Trees by Dr John Flannigan

04.03.2011

Our deep connection to trees has been irrefutably acknowledged during the campaign to protect our Public Forest Estate. We’re honoured that Dr John Flannigan has agreed for SOW to publish his article ‘A Strategy for Urban Trees’.

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Forests for the Future by Rod Leslie

02.03.2011

We are very lucky to share with you this paper written by Rod Leslie, former head of policy at the Forestry Commission, where he discusses the facts and creates a strong vision for our publicly owned forests

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SOW Briefing for Westminster Debate on the Future of the FC

01.03.2011

Save Our Woods issued this briefing in advance of the Westminster Debate on the Future of the Forestry Commission on 1st march 2011.

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The Report That They Didn’t Want You to See…

28.02.2011

In May 2010 a working group of 14 experts in forestry, woodland and sustainable environmental management finalised their report to government on: The long-term role of the Forestry Commission Public Forest Estate in England.

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