Low impact forestry in a small Scottish woodland
While it’s great to have a passion and vision for transforming the spruce plantation in Comar Wood, progress is going to be very slow unless I can make it work financially. Through experiences over the last few years, I am realising the difficulties of making low-impact forestry in a small spruce woodland pay; but also […]
It has been a busy winter of felling spruce. I have spent my days being sprayed with resin and showered with sawdust. It has been hard work, challenging at times, but it has been enjoyable! Every time I come in after a felling session and remove my boots and chainsaw trousers, there is a substantial […]
The concept of Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) has always made a lot of sense to me. Intuitively, forests need trees. The fungi, plants and animals that live in forests need trees. So we should manage our forests to maintain tree cover and not clear fell large areas. Natural processes have evolved over thousands of years […]
