Grading of home grown timber (summary)
Yesterday I spoke at the “Green Drinks” organised by SEDA and AECB. (The other main speaker was Nick Marshall, coordinator of the Association of Scottish […]
Thoughts
Forestry Commission v2019
The Forestry Commission was established as part of the Forestry Act 1919 – and is therefore celebrating its centenary this year. A lot has changed […]
Something different – tree art
Following an exchange of ideas on Twitter involving the artist Richard G Evans – who specialises in wonderful tree portraiture linked to GPS locations encouraging […]
Who looks like a forester? (#IWD2019)
For international women’s day, foresters, arboriculturists and the other diverse professionals working with trees took to social media with the hashtag #ILookLikeAForester. Not only was […]
How lovely are thy branches?
The modern timber industry is very dependent on a small number of commercial species, yet according to the GlobalTreeSearch there are more than 60,000 different […]
Wood in fireworks
About this time of year (for some reason) we tend to see some articles about the science of fireworks. These cover the chemistry and physics […]
Wood is not what you think it is
This is the transcript of what I said in the initial statements, prior to audience discussion, at the Confor organised seminar “Forestry and The Bioeconomy”, […]
Combustible materials on high-rise buildings
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government recently published a consultation document on their proposal to ban the use of combustible materials in the […]
How not to be twisted
This is a guest post by Mike Jarvis, Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry at Glasgow University and one of the original architects of […]
Wood in pianos
A while ago we were contacted by the Pianodrome project, asking for some help identifying wood species. They plan to build a 100-seat amphitheatre entirely from […]