One of the last things I did before leaving home for the hospital was to write out a press release for the Pro Silva Forest Trip to County Wicklow. We had been planning this event for months and I had been so looking forward to it. But on Easter Monday I got just a few hours [...]
The long awaited visit of Pro Silva Ireland (PSI) to Baronscourt Estate near Newtownstewart, County Tyrone was well worth the wait. In keeping with PSI tradition, two foreign experts were invited over to Ireland to join us on the day. Brice De Turckheim, a forest owner and forester with many years of experience in close-to-nature management [...]
While most of the Pro Silva Ireland (PSI) visits are to private forests, the one last Saturday 25th April was to a Coillte owned forest, Curragh Chase Forest Park in Foynes, County Limerick and it was a real quality day. As close-to-nature forest management is new to Ireland, there is no one to teach [...]
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We have inherited these denuded landscapes. We live amongst them and think it’s normal. We have also inherited the very questions that were asked by our ancestors and some of us approach forests in the same manner as people did 200 years and more ago. The slash and burn/clearfell approach. We’re still asking questions of [...]
Every day as I go about my daily activities I find myself trying to think of more ways to communicate to people involved in forests & timber industries in Ireland about this other way of approaching forest management. I am certain that if forest owners here knew there was another approach to forestry than [...]
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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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PRO SILVA IRELAND FIELD DAY SATURDAY OCTOBER 4th Venue: Brackloon Property, Cootehall, Co. Roscommon Hosted by: Mickey Gabbett Forest Manager: Paddy Purser Dr. Josef Spoerk (Pro Silva Austria) – forester in charge of investment forest properties owned by the Knights of Malta in Austria which have been [...]
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