jalex on May 19th, 2010

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 [...]

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jalex on March 14th, 2009

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 [...]

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