Posted by Jan on January 16th, 2010

Before Christmas I joined a group of friends at a Christmas party and I got into a conversation with a young lady who lives up the mountain near Drumshanbo.  She’s lived in the same area all her life and has watched the slow changes occurring as forestry became more prevalent over the last twenty years. [...]

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Posted by Jan on December 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

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Posted by Jan on March 18th, 2009

The day I went to see this client’s land in County Cavan it was clear to see that the tree to chase after would be ash.  Fiona wants part of her small holding to be forest.  She wants to enhance the land for birds and other wildlife and she wants to grow at least some [...]

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