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 [...]
Seeing these pictures makes me question yet again why we place no value on big trees here, and why we keep cutting down our own forests before they have a chance to mature.
One of the most frequently asked questions to arise when people attend Pro Silva Ireland forest visits is “What about stability?” People have seen the damage that the strong Atlantic winds can cause to a conifer plantation but we have nothing else to compare against this because the only commercial ‘forests’ we have here are [...]
In 10 minutes the wind storm threw down the even-aged plantation like so many matches from a spilled match box. One good reason to transform an even aged plantation to a more structured and species rich forest is stability. On this windy island of Ireland, a lot of our plantations suffer from wind damage. [...]
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