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📢 If you'd like to discuss an urban forest asset valuation (i-Tree Eco survey) for your town or city, get in touch! You can find the link to the recording of our recent webinar recording in the link below! i-Tree Tools - Treeconomics #benefitsoftrees #treeassetvaluation #communitygroups

🌳 There’s a growing threat that we’ll lose our ancient woodlands but there’s hope on the horizon if we all play our part. 🙏 That’s why we’re delighted to support Borders Forest Trust with funding from our Research and Innovation Grants to help protect a special woodland in Southern Scotland. This funding will help understand and restore ancient wood pastures, especially slope alder wood pastures. And while work focuses on one site, the findings can hopefully be used for other wood pasture sites, too. We’re looking forward to seeing the results of their important work. Nicola Hunt, Head of Land Management at Borders Forest Trust said: “We are delighted to receive funding towards our work which will enable us to undertake historical and ecological work to better understand our Ancient Wood Pasture site at Ericstane. This special area of woodland has likely survived for hundreds of years and a better understanding about it will enable us to plan how best to conserve it into the future.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Discover more about our Research and Innovation Grants. 👉 https://ow.ly/K1zm50RmhzT Image by C. Newell AncientWoodlands #BordersForestTrust #ResearchGrants #SouthernScotland #WoodPastures #InnovationGrants

Let us do the hard work! What could you do with all that saved time? #bluegrassecoblasting #mediablasting #ecofriendly #bowlinggreenky #bgky #smallbusiness #autorestoration #historicpreservation #renovation #paintremoval #graffitiremoval #antiquerestoration

Conversations about wildfire and forest management are not new topics - nor are they new to the media. If you like history and you’re passionate about wildfire and forest management, check out this article from 1924 (yes, you read that correctly - 100 years ago!) detailing the ongoing (then and still!) discussion about how best to manage our forests. #Vintage #History

Striving to facilitate the coexistence of woodland management and nature https://lnkd.in/eqreRwYC

Here comes door no. 9 of our #RootsofHopeAdventCalendar! 🌿🙏🏿✨ It shows in a very simpe but powerful way how the efficiency of investing in #mangroveconversation and restoration. #RootsofHope #mangroves

10 Techniques to Turn Your Lawn into More Biodiverse Habitat: https://lnkd.in/eFaPQnhQ

A lovely example of how Nature in practice (rather than abstract conceptualisation) overcomes artificial binaries. The debate as to whether tree planting and reintroduction of beavers is compatible addressed in this short video, where an observational, experiential approach reveals they can each enhance the other. Important to understand that dead trees are essential for wildlife also.... How might we similarly rewild our thinking, allow new concepts to emerge from the remains of dead ideas... Breathe in, breathe out #rewilding #reforestation #polaritymanagement #complexity #entanglement

Wolves are an important apex predator in many ecosystems. Here, Joanna Lambert discusses their recent reintroduction in #Colorado, with thanks to The Conversation US. https://lnkd.in/grg-6W3e

One of the most satisfying skills I developed through the UW Wetland Science and Management Program was the ability to identify plants and plant communities. As a means of practice I've started surveying plants in local parks, and occasionally they offer up surprising specimens. For example, Solstice Park in West Seattle, a small park with slope wetland elements, supports narrow leaf willow (Salix exigua) - the only such example of this plant I've yet to observe this side of the Cascades! In total, Solstice park has examples of more than 40 plants we learned as part of the program.