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 [...]
For the last four weeks we have experienced amazing weather for Irish standards. Everything frozen and white. The trees looked so beautiful. It brought many hardships with it, and many of us had to change the way we usually did things. For us on the farm, filling water for the cattle (and for neighbour’s cattle) [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I met a man who agreed to help me work through a new project I’ve been thinking about, to do with close-to-nature forestry of course. I travelled to Dublin on the train. We met in Juice, that wonderful restaurant on South Great George’s Street, Dublin. I had never met him before. He started by [...]
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About twenty years ago my parents moved from Eden, New South Wales up to the tropical north east of Australia to Hervey Bay. I’ve been coming here every year since then and I’m here now. While I haven’t explored the area that much, having only a bicycle to get around on, I have explored the [...]
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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