Native Woodland Scheme - Training | Woodlands of Ireland

News alert - Native Woodland Scheme Training A Native Woodland Training (NWS) course will be held on October 6th and 7th, 2016 at the Summerhill Hotel, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow and includes a field excursion to a native woodland to carry out a NWS Management plan by the course participants. This allows for the accreditation of approved ecologists and foresters working on the Native Woodland Scheme and is also open to woodland contractors, landowners, relevant State agencies (i.e. NPWS, EPA, etc) and Local Authority staff (see http://www.woodlandsofireland.com/native-woodland-scheme-training for more information and videos). For those who may be interested in attending this and/or future courses please contact: Kevin Collins, Forest Service (01-6072502) - or - Declan Little (087-6685823).

Hi everyone , in relation to my last post Re the AGM notice below I am sending a reminder in order to get a fix on numbers attending next Monday at 2pm. So if you are coming please confirm before Friday so that meeting arrangements can be finalised at Charleville Castle. Thank you.

Hi folks, Woodlands of Ireland is having its general AGM on June 13th next in the beautiful ancient native woodland setting of Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly at 2pm. Should be an interesting event as there's plenty going on in this sector currently. All suggestions and input welcome. Those attending must be members and membership is a nominal €5/year. If you or anyone you know is interested in attending shoot an e-mail to me at woodsofirealand@iol.ie asap and I'll send you a membership form etc. Expenses are paid to individuals and NGOs at 0.50c/mile and light refreshments will be served on the day. Declan Little, Project Manager

Golden eagles and Ireland’s uplands crisis

Shows how important getting the fundamentals right. Also, deforested uplands are not so easy to reafforest with native woodland because the ground has been exposed to leaching for hundreds of not thousands of years which has resulted on poorer more degraded soils http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/golden-eagles-and-ireland-s-uplands-crisis-1.2489767#.VpOReJ0aahg.facebook