William Johnson

Investment forester | Postgraduate (PhD) researcher, biodiversity & ecosystem function | Sustainable investment/finance |Former soldier

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@bjenquist @PFTCourses A significant improvement on #pftc5!

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@lwhemmings I think my honey bees can just about reach it!

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@andyheald @GoldcrestLfg

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@rosie_a_fisher And we also need to think about biodiversity in space and time over larger landscapes. The regulator for new woodland considers all these issues in deciding whether to grant permission to plant, but this is never explained in threads, perhaps because they don’t know.

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@rosie_a_fisher Some fundamentals missing from the original thread though. When agriculture stops you can get colonisation of hill land by bird species that were probably not there or in low numbers before. If anything new planting land sees an influx of species absent previously.

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@andyheald @ForestryEngland @forestsandwood @PaulBrannenNE @EnglandConfor @TimberTradeFed @bswtimber Is @ForestryEngland giving up on conifers? Year on year declines in plated areas in the private sector and the national forest estate being actively shrunk? We can build a sustainable bio economy on 1100 st/ha low intervention broadleaves

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@WoollyMaggot @youngb48 Worryingly she is the chair of the Woodland Trust according to that article

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@davidkb42 @StMarksSW11 @WandsworthFB Great stuff KB

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@andyheald The tragedy is you’re probably right!

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@lwhemmings @FutureTreesUK @keeper_of_books @mathilebrandts @TheCemetress @tree_sparks Pruned or pollarded?😉

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@VirginRadioUK stop talking over the best bits of the songs!

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@ArielBrunner Interesting to see what the research is, if it’s anything more than a 150m buffer around existing woodland using GIS. Any consideration of other factors that limit or support establishment from seed?

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@mchooyah You ship to the UK?

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@JonnyKerr42 And they said Clarkson’s Lambo was too big…

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

Great riposte from @thecoastguy to the mask dogma in the Sunday Times magazine today

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

What an incredibly powerful speech from @thecoastguy. If only I could put it so eloquently myself.

This is 5 minutes worth watching 👇🏼

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@JonnyKerr42 @AskBar_Ltd @velcourt Things seem a bit slow down south - picking some good ones in Northumberland already!

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@davidkb42 @TomTugendhat @harrybparker @BBCr4today ‘Twas ever thus

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@JonnyKerr42

[Geoff Sansome @HawfordFarm]

Crowd pullers #cereals21 Caleb from Clarkson’s farm at Ceres vs Deffa Minister Prentis....

[Geoff Sansome @HawfordFarm]

Crowd pullers #cereals21 Caleb from Clarkson’s farm at Ceres vs Deffa Minister Prentis....

[William Johnson @RoyalHighlander]

@lwhemmings @ForestryComm @ForestryEngland @ZacGoldsmith @copseworker @FavColour_Green @AmiesPhilip @Ben_Raskin @domgreves @AliDriverUK @collbradan @andyheald So total area of woodland created lower year on year, as is %of conifers. Is @ForestryEngland interested in growing timber for the bioeconomy? These other stars are a diversion from core FC business @andyheald