Forest products on the Handmade podcast
The Handmade podcast (previously known as ‘rial talk) has covered wood and wood-based materials a few times from different perspectives. March 23rd 2018 “Wood” with […]
public engagement
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 […]
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 […]
Wood for materials
Wood is a very useful material. In the future we will be able to make even more things from wood …and the components of wood. […]
Pianodrome Wood ID Workshop
Edinburgh International Science Festival The average piano is made up of between 8 and 16 different species of wood. Each part is designed carefully to […]
Being one with the trees
On 20th December 2017 the BBC will broadcast a program about Judi Dench and her love for trees (edit 9/11/2019, not currently on iplayer, but […]
CALEDON game
You may have seen the article by Max Coleman in Scottish Forestry about CALEDON – a computer game about tree health – and seen that […]
Forestry career route map (survey)
The Forest and Timber Technologies ILG Skills Group are currently undertaking a review of the Forestry Career Route Map website in order to update the […]
H0 H0 H0 (Santa’s hypothesis testing)
We all know that Santa is going to find out whether a child has been naughty or nice – but how does he do it? […]