FR Eye

 

FR Eye, our new online newsletter that gives details of recent projects and developments at Forest Research. We do far more than trees...

If you would like an email notification for each new issue, send your contact details to: newsletter@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

July 2008

Issue 12 - published: 30th July 2008

• Editorial
• Staff News
• Forest-wood chain: EFORWOOD goes forward
• Launch of the Rural Research and Strategy Partnership
• Forest Research at Sustainabilitylive!
• The sustainable establishment of woodland on landfill sites
• Continuous Cover Forestry
• LiDAR provides helpful information for felling operations
• New publications
• What’s new on the Forest Research website
• Events

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April 2008

Issue 11 - published: 28th April 2008

• Editorial
• East meets West in international forestry co-operation
• Mountain forestry meets social science
• Scottish crossbill census
• Keeping communication channels open
• Restoring Britain’s peatlands
• Norwegian colleagues share PCR expertise
• Health and well-being of forestry workers
• Natural regeneration workshop
• Headley chosen as site for new herbicide field trial
• New publications
• What’s new on the Forest Research website
• Events

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February 2008

Issue 10 - published: 3rd March 2008 (New)

• Editorial
• Oak Pinhole Borer – from rarity to pest
• Adapting Scotland’s forests to a future climate
• Seminar shows off acoustic tools for timber testing
• Pine Wilt Disease – new model helps analyse risk in Europe
• Native Woodlands Survey of Scotland
• Biodiversity conservation at Alice Holt nurseries
• Restoration of floodplain woodland for flood alleviation
• New publications
• What’s new on the Forest Research website
• Events

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November 2007

Issue 9 - published: 30th November 2007

• Editorial
• UK forest monitoring network
• Research trip to Liaoning Province
• Inverness Research Update
• Cydcoed evaluation project
• Cost-effective soil metal analysis
• The reality of research in a different culture
• Soil experts group
• Fire suppression seminars
• How do trees behave and change underground?
• New publications
• What’s new on the Forest Research website
• Events

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September 2007

Issue 8 - published: 28th September 2007

• Editorial
• Farewell to Jim Lynch
• Forest network monitors ecosystem change
• Lord Selborne at Alice Holt
• Landscape genetics project
• Investigating payments for ecosystem services
• Landscape ecology world congress
• Growing links with Scion Research 'down under'
• What's new on the FR website
• New publications
• Events
• STOP PRESS - New brash guidance

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July 2007

Issue 7 - published: 30th July 2007

• Editorial
• Jim Lynch OBE
• Functional links for natural networking
• Forest Research / FC England Climate Change Seminars
• Howard League Award for Forestry Commission
• Listen to what the trees are saying
• SCaMP restores habitats at Bowland
• Novel research on contraceptives – Grey squirrels
• International forestry collaboration
• Bulletin provides 70 years of spruce know-how
• IUFRO considers global research
• Can’t see the wood for the trees? – Try LIDAR
• Other research news
• What’s new on the FR website
• New publications
• Events

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April 2007

Issue 6 - published: 2nd April 2007

• Editorial
• New climate change webpages
• Award-winning scientist
• Scottish timber miles
• Offenders and nature schemes
• What’s new on the FR website
• New publications
• Events

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February 2007

Issue 5 - published: 6th February 2007

• Editorial
• Bioenergy and climate change
• Research at Jeskyns
• Funding coup for floodplain project
• Beyond the forest - Environmental Futures
• Social and cultural values of forests
• Tourism and forestry in Scotland
• Development and woodland biodiversity
• What’s new on the Forest Research website
• New research links
• New publications
• Events

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December 2006

Issue 4 - published: 13th Dec 2006

• Editorial
• New development/change manager
• Alice Holt Research Forest
• Climate Change conference
• Forestry gets greener
• Rhododendron control
• Woodland rehabilitation for ex-offenders
• Progress at Jeskyn’s farm
• Pests and diseases of 2006
• New pathways for health and well-being in Scotland
• New publications

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October 2006

Issue 3 - published: 20th Oct 2006

• Forest Research joins the APF in the rain and mud
• Forestry Commission Equality Strategy and Disability Discrimination Act
• Baronscourt Experiment
• Storm risk meeting
• Alien invasive species and international trade
• New publications
• Events

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September 2006

Issue 2 - published: 7th Sept 2006

• Bootstock annual party
• Does cattle grazing improve Black Grouse habitat?
• Royal Welsh Show report
• Summer Science Exhibition
• Alien invasive species and international trade
• New publications
• Events
• Publication distribution feedback

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July 2006

Issue 1 - published: 21st July 2006

• Editorial
• CEO Foreword
• New research liaison team
• Biomass Energy Centre unveiled
• Bosnian expedition
• Woodland birds meeting
• Woodfuel Research Centre
• Wild harvest from Scottish woodlands
• Symposium on Society & Research Management
• Tree breeding knowledge-share
• Successful germination for threatened plant
• Are you doing enough exercise?
• Grants for new woodland planting
• New Zealand news
• Royal Welsh Show
• Promoting Land Regeneration Research
• International soil expert meeting
• New publications
• Forthcoming events

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