Last October 2008, I wrote a post about the Pro Silva Ireland trip to the forests of Slovenia. Pro Silva Europe was launched in Slovenia back in 1989 and this year, in September, instead of just a three day forest trip and a brief committee meeting, a much more comprehensive event was planned to mark [...]
One of the subjects that frequently comes up on this blog site is ‘clearfell forestry’. I wouldn’t be such an ‘anti’ if it was kind of 50/50 permanent forest/clearfell plantations, or at least a bit more balanced. It’s just that in the Cavan/Leitrim area where I live, there isn’t anything else. (Well, apart from two [...]
Mostly I want to keep this blog site jargon free and low tech, but on this post I thought it might be useful to paste up my own notes which include a few facts and figures for those who are interested in more technical details: Het Loo Royal Estate After a good breakfast we piled [...]
Continue reading about Visit to Holland – “Het Loo” Royal Estate and Badger Mountain
Even though I’m back over a week from the Pro Silva Ireland trip to Holland, I haven’t been able to get my head around blogging about it until now. I could say it’s because we saw so much in just two full days, – but that might give the impression that it was a hectic, [...]
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Two friends of friends are visiting Ireland from Australia and they’ve been staying with me for a couple of days. We spent Sunday together and I brought them for a visit to the Organic Centre in North Leitrim. Three reasons: – 1) It’s a great place. Against all the odds, the Organic Centre was started [...]
Returning home from Slovenia after another fabulous forestry trip with Pro Silva Ireland, the grey bleakness of the Irish countryside is getting in on me. After sleeping a night in a hotel in Dublin to recover from the Ryan Air flight, I’m gazing out the window of the train on the journey home and thinking. [...]
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