The SuDS Consultation – further delay in sustainable development.

03.01.2012

Gov’t is consulting on proposed changes to SuDS (sustainable drainage systems) legislation.

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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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Threat to the Quantock Hills

19.12.2011

Somerset Council has advertised its proposal to sell a major part of the Quantocks AONB! URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!

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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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Our Forests press statement re: Independent Panel on Forestry Progress Report

08.12.2011

Jonathon Porritt of Our Forests! Responds to the Forestry Panels Progress Report

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Forestry Panel – Progress Report

08.12.2011

The Independent Forestry Panel publishes it’s progress report…

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TREES IN MIND – Blarbuie Woodland at Argyll and Bute Hospital

06.12.2011

Hugh Fife, of Reforesting Scotland, tells us about inspiring research at Blarbuie Woodlands, into the ways Woodlands impact on our mental health and well-being…

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The Arrogance that is Biodiversity Offsetting

05.12.2011

Who has misled George over the true value of the British Rural Landscape?

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The Save Our Forests Campaign, an UPDATE

04.12.2011

… our forests and woodlands are in a more precarious position than they were in at the time of the proposed sell off… We all need to be prepared…

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Our Forests Requests Defra Internal Review

29.11.2011

Our Forests request an internal review of Defra’s refusal to provide us with certain information, as asked for in our FOI request

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It’s NATIONAL TREE WEEK! Every Tree Matters!

26.11.2011

Find a way to plant a tree this week for National Tree Week! Learn more here: The Tree Council – National Tree Week

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LOSING Forestry Commission Wales!

25.11.2011

The Welsh Government is proposing to merge Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) with the Welsh arm of the Environment Agency (EA) and Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). This could lead to asset stripping – A WELSH FOREST SELL OFF!

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Restoring Salcey Forest

24.11.2011

Rod Leslie talks of the 1990 clear fells in Salcey Forest and the learning curve that led the Forestry Commission to create ‘something quite unique…’

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NOTES OF OUR FORESTS MEETING held 14/10/11

22.11.2011

Present: Hen Anderson, Richard Daniels, Gabriel Hemery, Tony Juniper, Robin Maynard, Jonathon Porritt Apologies: Rod Leslie

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One Size Does Not Fit All

21.11.2011

Pip Howard explores what is fundamentally wrong with ALL centralised policy, proposals and guidelines with regards land management (including planning, forestry, landscape issues, biodiversity etc.,) in the UK?

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Trees in the Blood by Jonathon Porritt

17.11.2011

At the last Our Forests meeting it was agreed that in the countdown to the progress report being published by the Forestry Panel in early December, each member of Our Forests would write about what forests and woodlands mean to them and why they are so passionately fighting on their behalf. Here we have Jonathans’ story…

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Fighting for our woodland heritage

15.11.2011

Writer and access hero, Jon Bainbridge writes on access rights to woods and warns that the fight to save our woods has barely begun….

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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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