The Bearded Forester

Promoting the best in modern forestry management, sustainable timber production, woodland conservation; building global relationships.

[The Bearded Forester @BeardedForester]

@Jonathan_JX00 @Erling He's regretting this now...

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Thinking of starting a new photographic series dedicated to lonely trees that could use some company. Calling it "#Soli-tree".
@GregPackman

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

@ForestryEngland 's new hazel dormouse skyline / rope bridge, installed in the #ForestofDean

The @BeardedForester "John Williams" Edit 😂

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

More mounding completed at another #woodland creation site over the weekend - by the man, the legend himself @benjaminjmiller

Not many capable of mounding by moonlight but he'll do what it takes to get the job done! 😅

Great work and looking forward to getting some trees in 💪

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Just heard from a notable client that they have decided to remove 80 ha from 110 ha new woodland creation.

Essentially the process has taken so long, they have decided to go and do other things with the land. We are 18 months in and should still plant some areas this winter. 1/

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

#NorthEast foresters, wanderers and wood lovers... @royal_forestry Society NE branch extends an invite for non-members to join an evening visit to Thistle Wood, near Medomsley, followed by buffet meal and talk by @woods4thetrees Max Adams on July 27th 2023.

See 🧵below for info:

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Out in the woods at the weekend. Marking up trees to widen access track and checking larch poles, peeled earlier in the year for some construction projects. Nice to be doing some proper #forestry for a change!

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Looking forward to welcoming delegates to the glorious Whitfield Estate on Friday, where we will be taking a group of #foresters around woodland and moorland edge with expert guide Keith Buchanan.

The event is designed to help with ID and understanding diff habitat requirements:

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

2 types of priority habitat, side by side: which is the priority?

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Hungry ash for #thicktrunktuesday . Because apparently I'm not allowed to only post about spruce trees! 😅

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Sad to see this range of smaller forwarders being killed off due to low demand - this is exactly the type of machine Estate managers need to carry out early thinning with low impact, tidy bits of blow and reach places off limits to big forwarders. @JackMHaugh @WoollyMaggot

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

This relatively modest but locally distinctive ash tree is within a planned area of new woodland. It will feature at the centre of an open glade, with grass rides/paths leading toward it and emphasising it as a feature in the changing landscape. #thicktrunktuesday

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Earlier in the year I posted about a native woodland creation scheme in the North Pennines, rejected due to concerns over golden plover feeding habitat. He has now written a blog post about the scheme: https://t.co/eWo93frnEc which we are appealing to the new Secretary of State.

[The Bearded Forester @BeardedForester]

Any preferences for a Twitter account sharing stories of Forestry professionals from across the Home Nations...? Inspired by @FarmersOfTheUK - and ForestersOfTheUK is too many letters(!)

[Tom Barnes @TomBarnesWood]

I am at the @forestsandwood conference today to launch the National Wood Strategy for England #NWSE . The purpose? To put productivity back on the top table of policy priorities. @GrowninBritain @ForestryComm @ForestryEngland @royal_forestry @TheICF

[The Bearded Forester @BeardedForester]

@WoollyMaggot @FutureTreesUK @Christie_Elite YC...?

[The Bearded Forester @BeardedForester]

Any preferences for a Twitter account sharing stories of Forestry professionals from across the Home Nations...? Inspired by @FarmersOfTheUK - and ForestersOfTheUK is too many letters(!)

[Peter MacDonald @BlackIslePMD]

School leaver, or considering a career change into forestry? This 18-week course starts in January at @ssf_uhi in Inverness
Learn tractor operations, production & care of young trees, forest harvesting machinery, ATV operations + intro to forest harvesting
https://t.co/O2tSJ6DHWr

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

With his background in Int'l Trade, @ranil should also be familiar with UK dependence on timber imports. To start a #greengrowth revolution, we need to ensure trees planted today can be utilised by future generations and make use of the land least suited to growing food. 🌱🌲🌲🐏