Comments on: What Has Nature Done While I Was Away? http://www.localforestlog.ie/2009/04/16/what-has-nature-done-while-i-was-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-has-nature-done-while-i-was-away notes from Jan Alexander's diary Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jalex http://www.localforestlog.ie/2009/04/16/what-has-nature-done-while-i-was-away/comment-page-1/#comment-38 jalex Mon, 04 May 2009 12:33:53 +0000 http://www.localforestlog.ie/?p=297#comment-38 Hi Bob, Thank you for your interest in my site. I hope you will avail of the free subscribe button and get all my posts as they are written. I agree with you that a clearfell site is a sad picture. But being surrounded by 1/3rd of the landscape as forest cover could be a good thing. They can be seen as pioneer forests that can be worked with and transformed over time into something altogether different. Look on the PSI website for details of the next forest outing. It would be great if you would come along. Thanks for leaving your comment. All the best, - Jan Hi Bob,
Thank you for your interest in my site. I hope you will avail of the free subscribe button and get all my posts as they are written.
I agree with you that a clearfell site is a sad picture. But being surrounded by 1/3rd of the landscape as forest cover could be a good thing. They can be seen as pioneer forests that can be worked with and transformed over time into something altogether different. Look on the PSI website for details of the next forest outing. It would be great if you would come along. Thanks for leaving your comment. All the best, – Jan

]]> By: Bob Wilson http://www.localforestlog.ie/2009/04/16/what-has-nature-done-while-i-was-away/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Bob Wilson Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:45:47 +0000 http://www.localforestlog.ie/?p=297#comment-31 Hi Jan, Cathy Fitzgerald has pointed out your blog to me. I am with CELT environmental education NGO and trying to promote more native woodlands and also ideas like agroforestry / woodland gardens with native trees and organic produce - can be done on the smallest scale with fruit trees / shrubs in back yard, or on large scale incorporating coppice management and biomass production. I am continually badgering government for restructuring of Irish forestry to encourage these sort of things instead of the damaging plantation forest practices. Pro Silva sounds good and interesting that there is some cooperation with Coillte. Coillte here in East Clare have been very unhelpful when we have tried to find ways to work with them. We are surrounded by one-third of the landscape covered in their monoculture coniferous plantations with clear-fell and replanting the same and barely a few straggly native trees left along watercourses. To me it's a disgrace - a rape of the land. Anyway, I hope to get to meet you soon and talk more. Hi Jan, Cathy Fitzgerald has pointed out your blog to me. I am with CELT environmental education NGO and trying to promote more native woodlands and also ideas like agroforestry / woodland gardens with native trees and organic produce – can be done on the smallest scale with fruit trees / shrubs in back yard, or on large scale incorporating coppice management and biomass production. I am continually badgering government for restructuring of Irish forestry to encourage these sort of things instead of the damaging plantation forest practices.

Pro Silva sounds good and interesting that there is some cooperation with Coillte.
Coillte here in East Clare have been very unhelpful when we have tried to find ways to work with them. We are surrounded by one-third of the landscape covered in their monoculture coniferous plantations with clear-fell and replanting the same and barely a few straggly native trees left along watercourses. To me it’s a disgrace – a rape of the land.

Anyway, I hope to get to meet you soon and talk more.

]]> By: Chipping party fiasco: what happens when you don’t use good machines « An Art & Ecology Notebook http://www.localforestlog.ie/2009/04/16/what-has-nature-done-while-i-was-away/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Chipping party fiasco: what happens when you don’t use good machines « An Art & Ecology Notebook Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:42:55 +0000 http://www.localforestlog.ie/?p=297#comment-29 [...] is taking root in other parts of the country, her latest post will give you an idea of all the seedlings, natural regeneration that happens after thinning) and many of them are making great strides in their different interests in wood. Friends & [...] [...] is taking root in other parts of the country, her latest post will give you an idea of all the seedlings, natural regeneration that happens after thinning) and many of them are making great strides in their different interests in wood. Friends & [...]

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