Michael J.Steed

Chartered Forester and Director at Tree Planet Consulting. Bass Player. Dad. Biker.

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

Here's a reminder that commercially managed forests are not all "dead zones". Have a good weekend everyone.

[Jason J Hunter (Not a noble Lord) @JJHTweets]

Scruffy, Drinkie, Smirky and Leaky - aka The Spite Girls

Stolen from Facebook...

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

@SpillerOfTea Snake

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

Defra have finally updated their webpage to include growing timber as a reason for planting trees.

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

@andyheald Hallelujah!!

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

If we want to build houses like this⬇️then we need to grow more timber.

Majority of that timber will NOT come from hedges & edges, or from broadleaved trees planted at 3 metre centres, or agroecology, or rewilding.

Most of it will be from conifer plantations🌲

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

You never know who's watching..... https://t.co/Lc58ClCL5w. .

[Eize Basa @PonchoRebound]

It's only one minute long, but this CCTV footage has a better narrative and more compelling character arcs than most of the arthouse films I've seen:

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

Spanish police talking to lamas wearing face masks…😳 Ok got it

[Forestry Commission @ForestryComm]

If you own or manage woodland, act now to help mitigate against more extreme climate projections expected up to the end of the century. 🍃

Read our advice on how to manage woodlands in England in a climate emergency 👉 https://t.co/eb8o4eiDr1. #TogetherForOurPlanet

[Sue Perkins 💙 @sueperkins]

What an embarrassing incompetent chump.

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

@stuglen @NatForestCo Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Still perpetuating the view of foresters as ‘ecological vandals’. When will it end ?

[Eilidh Forster @eilidh_forster]

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Expanding commercial conifer forestry is the most efficient strategy for achieving climate change mitigation through woodland creation
Let me explain (thread).
@BUForestry @WKWales @dymond_c @ENVISIONDTP @natcomms
#NetZero #forestry #ClimateChange https://t.co/zSrz2BTYzF

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

Could we be growing more Paulownia as a very short rotation forestry crop ?

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

Temperate Rainforest. Polypody ferns adorning Sessile oak. Cornwall UK

[John Weir FICFor @JohnthetreeWeir]

BBC News - UK government backs birth control for grey squirrels
https://t.co/hFjCTtlAi0

[Blair LM Kelley, PhD @profblmkelley]

Joy speaking the truth. Thank you @JoyAnnReid

[Rupert Seidl @RupertSeidl]

Still in need of some holiday reading and interested in biodiversity and forest management? Check out this new book on how to balance forestry and conservation, edited by colleagues from @europeanforest and @WSL_research. Download a copy for free here: https://t.co/1ckY6N7bQu

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

@GeorgeMonbiot Great for biodiversity... but forests need to provide the timber society needs for building to replace unsustainable materials like concrete, steel etc. but to achieve this requires right species in right place at right stocking density. Not (always) just left to chance.

[Luke Hemmings 🌻🇺🇦 @lwhemmings]

This is why managed forests are so important. Management interventions - whether it is cutting coppice or commercial harvesting - replicate natural disturbance and allow scrub / open ground species to exploit. Over a large forest there will be many such areas at any given time:

[Michael J.Steed @MichaelSteed7]

Here Here!! Get your facts straight first...🙄

[Andrew Heald @andyheald]

The reason I get frustrated with journalists not bothering to speak to professional foresters, is because when @guardianeco publishes these 2 stories 24 hrs apart by @lukeharding1968 & @patrick_barkham nobody seems to really make the connection ....