One of the subjects that I meant to write about, during all that good weather when I wasn’t writing, was about the honour I received at the RDS/Forest Service Irish Forestry Awards back in October 2009, in being presented with a Judges Special Award. RDS Award winners: Standing L to R: Diarmuid McAree, retired Chief Forestry [...]
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In the area where I live, on the Cavan/Leitrim border, much of the forestry is small scale farmer owned. So it’s easy to see why the event last week run by Teagasc at Ballyhaise Agricultural College in Cavan on small scale harvesting, generated such a huge interest. Like the event in Kilkenny the week before, [...]
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Last week I travelled down to Inistoige, County Kilkenny to attend the National Forestry Demonstration on Broadleaf Management and Thinning. It was run by Teagasc, Coford and the Forest Service jointly. It was an extremely well organized event and there was a lot of interest. There were mini buses to ferry people to and from [...]
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