Aspect Forestry and Rural Management
@aspectforest.bsky.social
Timber harvesting contractors and woodland advisors. Achieving the most from your woodland with a flexible and conscientious approach. Established in 2004.
www.aspect-forestry.co.uk
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if we want diversely structured woodlands, then we have to deal with Bambi (via carnivore or copper-tip)
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @britishecologicalsociety.org
#woodland #ecology 🧪
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#woodland #ecology 🧪
Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration
Our results provide strong evidence that in the current context of increasing tree mortality and subsequent light availability, roe deer act as a keystone species. It is crucial to implement browsing...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
if we want diversely structured woodlands, then we have to deal with Bambi (via carnivore or copper-tip)
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @britishecologicalsociety.org
#woodland #ecology 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @britishecologicalsociety.org
#woodland #ecology 🧪
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#positiveforestry back with a bang this week!
Other than just being a stunning autumnal photo, its shows how commercial forestry can be indistinguishable from other woodlands. Its only when you really look closely at the photo you can see what's going...
Other than just being a stunning autumnal photo, its shows how commercial forestry can be indistinguishable from other woodlands. Its only when you really look closely at the photo you can see what's going...
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
#positiveforestry back with a bang this week!
Other than just being a stunning autumnal photo, its shows how commercial forestry can be indistinguishable from other woodlands. Its only when you really look closely at the photo you can see what's going...
Other than just being a stunning autumnal photo, its shows how commercial forestry can be indistinguishable from other woodlands. Its only when you really look closely at the photo you can see what's going...
Absolutely brilliant thread on forestry, sustainable timber production and habitat management.
Managed forestry can be terrifically positive. ⬇️
Managed forestry can be terrifically positive. ⬇️
So a few days ago there was a little set to over what we define as a forest. Apparently a conifer plantation isn't, its just a dead zone.
So just to show forestry is nuanced, not black and white, here's three photos of commercial plantations all within about 200yds of each other
So just to show forestry is nuanced, not black and white, here's three photos of commercial plantations all within about 200yds of each other
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Absolutely brilliant thread on forestry, sustainable timber production and habitat management.
Managed forestry can be terrifically positive. ⬇️
Managed forestry can be terrifically positive. ⬇️
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The reality in the UK is that timber production is set for long term decline, and that the area of commercial forestry is declining.
We can’t build “forest towns” if we don’t have productive forests
- @marycreagh.bsky.social @helenahorton.bsky.social
www.tomorrowsforests.co.uk/post/are-we-...
We can’t build “forest towns” if we don’t have productive forests
- @marycreagh.bsky.social @helenahorton.bsky.social
www.tomorrowsforests.co.uk/post/are-we-...
Are We Heading Towards a Timber Shortage Crisis?
Can productive forestry also help meet net-zero and biodiversity goals?
www.tomorrowsforests.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The reality in the UK is that timber production is set for long term decline, and that the area of commercial forestry is declining.
We can’t build “forest towns” if we don’t have productive forests
- @marycreagh.bsky.social @helenahorton.bsky.social
www.tomorrowsforests.co.uk/post/are-we-...
We can’t build “forest towns” if we don’t have productive forests
- @marycreagh.bsky.social @helenahorton.bsky.social
www.tomorrowsforests.co.uk/post/are-we-...
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If you remember, the comms around the new Western Forest doesn’t mention timber and all the photos are of broadleaves 🤔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New national forest to see 20m trees planted across West by 2050
The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets.
www.bbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
If you remember, the comms around the new Western Forest doesn’t mention timber and all the photos are of broadleaves 🤔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Let’s hope that:
* these “forest towns” will be #timber frame and built with home grown wood and other biomaterials
* the new woodland that’s planted will contain a high % of #conifers and be managed to produce future #timber and biomaterials.
🌲🌳🪵🏘️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
* these “forest towns” will be #timber frame and built with home grown wood and other biomaterials
* the new woodland that’s planted will contain a high % of #conifers and be managed to produce future #timber and biomaterials.
🌲🌳🪵🏘️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge
Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Let’s hope that:
* these “forest towns” will be #timber frame and built with home grown wood and other biomaterials
* the new woodland that’s planted will contain a high % of #conifers and be managed to produce future #timber and biomaterials.
🌲🌳🪵🏘️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
* these “forest towns” will be #timber frame and built with home grown wood and other biomaterials
* the new woodland that’s planted will contain a high % of #conifers and be managed to produce future #timber and biomaterials.
🌲🌳🪵🏘️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is extremely important, alot of contractors are struggling - machines parked up or sold, inevitably we are going to lose some.
Sawmills unwilling to comment.
This needs resolving now. @forestsandwood, a matter of urgency, these mills are your members.
Sawmills unwilling to comment.
This needs resolving now. @forestsandwood, a matter of urgency, these mills are your members.
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is extremely important, alot of contractors are struggling - machines parked up or sold, inevitably we are going to lose some.
Sawmills unwilling to comment.
This needs resolving now. @forestsandwood, a matter of urgency, these mills are your members.
Sawmills unwilling to comment.
This needs resolving now. @forestsandwood, a matter of urgency, these mills are your members.
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In UK (usually) timber harvesting companies buy standing timber from forest owners, then engage harvesting contractors and hauliers, and sell to sawmills.
People get paid when the timber gets to the mill and is weighed.
If timber is harvested & sat at roadside, then people haven’t been paid.
People get paid when the timber gets to the mill and is weighed.
If timber is harvested & sat at roadside, then people haven’t been paid.
Senior figure believes more can be done to ‘ensure rapid timber uplift’
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In UK (usually) timber harvesting companies buy standing timber from forest owners, then engage harvesting contractors and hauliers, and sell to sawmills.
People get paid when the timber gets to the mill and is weighed.
If timber is harvested & sat at roadside, then people haven’t been paid.
People get paid when the timber gets to the mill and is weighed.
If timber is harvested & sat at roadside, then people haven’t been paid.
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The timber needed to build homes like this ⬇️ comes from conifer plantations 🌲🌲🌲
Domestic availability of this timber is set for long term decline.
Area of conifer forestry in Scotland has grown by only 0.5% in the last 25 yrs.
Global demand for forest products will increase >100% in next 25 yrs
Domestic availability of this timber is set for long term decline.
Area of conifer forestry in Scotland has grown by only 0.5% in the last 25 yrs.
Global demand for forest products will increase >100% in next 25 yrs
"Unlike most new builds that rely on concrete, imported materials and treated timber, Makar’s design avoids harmful chemicals and high-carbon components."
bylines.scot/environment/...
bylines.scot/environment/...
Would an independent Scotland be on the hook for U.K. trade deals?
What independence campaigns need to know about legacy trade deals to avoid fish hooks in foreign investment
bylines.scot
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The timber needed to build homes like this ⬇️ comes from conifer plantations 🌲🌲🌲
Domestic availability of this timber is set for long term decline.
Area of conifer forestry in Scotland has grown by only 0.5% in the last 25 yrs.
Global demand for forest products will increase >100% in next 25 yrs
Domestic availability of this timber is set for long term decline.
Area of conifer forestry in Scotland has grown by only 0.5% in the last 25 yrs.
Global demand for forest products will increase >100% in next 25 yrs
Well that’s October done and dusted.
October 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Well that’s October done and dusted.
We have to change the public perception of this…..
See? I'm not the only one saying this
"The public image still sees conifers bad, native hardwoods good, especially if the native hardwoods are old and decrepit."
FULL FEATURE: www.forestryjournal.co.uk/features/for...
FULL FEATURE: www.forestryjournal.co.uk/features/for...
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We have to change the public perception of this…..
The needs are very clear.
We need to decarbonise our whole economy.
We need to build and retrofit lower carbon homes, which are quicker to build and better insulated.
Both require more timber, board and wood fibre.
That material will come mainly from plantation forestry.
We need to decarbonise our whole economy.
We need to build and retrofit lower carbon homes, which are quicker to build and better insulated.
Both require more timber, board and wood fibre.
That material will come mainly from plantation forestry.
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Bit of thoughtful reading, should you want it.....⬇️
"When the planting statistics came out in the summer you’d have been forgiven for thinking the season had been a resounding success."
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/opinion/2557...
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/opinion/2557...
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Bit of thoughtful reading, should you want it.....⬇️
I will always try and support the forestry industry on SM. Yes, I make my living from it but it means so much more to me than that. I care deeply about the job I do, the timber I provide and the habitats I manage.
So why should I have to put up with this utter tripe that is throw at me?
So why should I have to put up with this utter tripe that is throw at me?
But I see that all you are is a planter, so of course you will try to defend this garbage because it's how you make your living.
Your opinion on the matter is invalid. Goodbye.
Your opinion on the matter is invalid. Goodbye.
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I will always try and support the forestry industry on SM. Yes, I make my living from it but it means so much more to me than that. I care deeply about the job I do, the timber I provide and the habitats I manage.
So why should I have to put up with this utter tripe that is throw at me?
So why should I have to put up with this utter tripe that is throw at me?
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“A bunch of people” - a handful of foresters & woodland managers who have decades of experience in managing and creating a wide range of forest & woodland types.
Suprising that your response is to dismiss their comments and their experience, rather than reach out and find common ground.
Suprising that your response is to dismiss their comments and their experience, rather than reach out and find common ground.
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“A bunch of people” - a handful of foresters & woodland managers who have decades of experience in managing and creating a wide range of forest & woodland types.
Suprising that your response is to dismiss their comments and their experience, rather than reach out and find common ground.
Suprising that your response is to dismiss their comments and their experience, rather than reach out and find common ground.
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Or alternatively, this is a photo of another plantation. Looks like a forest doesn't it? Was planted in the 60's as 100% douglas fir and now its looks like this.
Forestry is a long game.
#positiveforestry
Forestry is a long game.
#positiveforestry
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Or alternatively, this is a photo of another plantation. Looks like a forest doesn't it? Was planted in the 60's as 100% douglas fir and now its looks like this.
Forestry is a long game.
#positiveforestry
Forestry is a long game.
#positiveforestry
I find it really intriguing that @irishrainforest.bsky.social at every opportunity is heavily critical of UK and Irish forestry. However, he was more than happy to be interviewed for a two page article in Sep 2025 in @forestryjournal.bsky.social (They promote and represent the forestry industry)
We are constantly told by the media and authorities that these are both 'forest'.
One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone.
They could not be more different.
One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone.
They could not be more different.
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I find it really intriguing that @irishrainforest.bsky.social at every opportunity is heavily critical of UK and Irish forestry. However, he was more than happy to be interviewed for a two page article in Sep 2025 in @forestryjournal.bsky.social (They promote and represent the forestry industry)
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Disappointed to hear @craigbennett3.bsky.social scare mongering about the possibility of “intensive conifer plantations” on the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland on
the Today Programme. Maybe he should listen to Sir David Attenborough www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... especially at the 4 min mark.
the Today Programme. Maybe he should listen to Sir David Attenborough www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... especially at the 4 min mark.
How To Save Our Forests and Rewild Our Planet
YouTube video by WWF International
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Disappointed to hear @craigbennett3.bsky.social scare mongering about the possibility of “intensive conifer plantations” on the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland on
the Today Programme. Maybe he should listen to Sir David Attenborough www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... especially at the 4 min mark.
the Today Programme. Maybe he should listen to Sir David Attenborough www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... especially at the 4 min mark.
Great and balanced points.
These are all taken in managed conifer plantation. Perhaps we should fell it all and allow it to "rewild"? I admire many rewilding initiatives. I also hate unthinned 1st rotation Sitka. But we need timber, and gotta start somewhere.
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Great and balanced points.
Both examples are forest “a large area of land thickly covered with trees” OED
But that’s like comparing a field of wheat to a field of potatoes - both are fields but with very different functions.
The one on the left is a complex diverse native ecosystem - brilliant but we need both examples 🧵1/4
But that’s like comparing a field of wheat to a field of potatoes - both are fields but with very different functions.
The one on the left is a complex diverse native ecosystem - brilliant but we need both examples 🧵1/4
We are constantly told by the media and authorities that these are both 'forest'.
One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone.
They could not be more different.
One is a complex, diverse native ecosystem, full of life. The other is an industrial monoculture deadzone.
They could not be more different.
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Both examples are forest “a large area of land thickly covered with trees” OED
But that’s like comparing a field of wheat to a field of potatoes - both are fields but with very different functions.
The one on the left is a complex diverse native ecosystem - brilliant but we need both examples 🧵1/4
But that’s like comparing a field of wheat to a field of potatoes - both are fields but with very different functions.
The one on the left is a complex diverse native ecosystem - brilliant but we need both examples 🧵1/4
Useful article and information, especially for smaller woodland owners or those just starting out.
Woodland management in action.
#positiveforestry
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/24/m...
Woodland management in action.
#positiveforestry
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/24/m...
Making the most of your timber: unlocking the value of low-quality wood
Chris Watson, Woodland Resilience Advisor at the Forestry Commission, invites Simon James, Chief Executive from Small Woods Association, to discuss key wood products made from lower-quality wood, and ...
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Useful article and information, especially for smaller woodland owners or those just starting out.
Woodland management in action.
#positiveforestry
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/24/m...
Woodland management in action.
#positiveforestry
forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/24/m...
This was recently forwarded to me by
@stuttonsparrows.bsky.social
A brilliant example of woodland creation on a site in Suffolk. It highlights the subsequent management and the positive conservation outcomes it is achieving.
#positiveforestry
farmwildlife.info/2025/10/21/c...
@stuttonsparrows.bsky.social
A brilliant example of woodland creation on a site in Suffolk. It highlights the subsequent management and the positive conservation outcomes it is achieving.
#positiveforestry
farmwildlife.info/2025/10/21/c...
Case Study: Managing Young Farm Woodlands at Sycamore Farm - Farm Wildlife
Managing young farm woodlands for biodiversity, timber quality, and the farm’s long-term value.
farmwildlife.info
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This was recently forwarded to me by
@stuttonsparrows.bsky.social
A brilliant example of woodland creation on a site in Suffolk. It highlights the subsequent management and the positive conservation outcomes it is achieving.
#positiveforestry
farmwildlife.info/2025/10/21/c...
@stuttonsparrows.bsky.social
A brilliant example of woodland creation on a site in Suffolk. It highlights the subsequent management and the positive conservation outcomes it is achieving.
#positiveforestry
farmwildlife.info/2025/10/21/c...
I’m having a few days off, it’s been a busy
old year so far!
Visited NT Sheringham Park today. A must for any tree enthusiast. A stunning display of autumn colours.
old year so far!
Visited NT Sheringham Park today. A must for any tree enthusiast. A stunning display of autumn colours.
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m having a few days off, it’s been a busy
old year so far!
Visited NT Sheringham Park today. A must for any tree enthusiast. A stunning display of autumn colours.
old year so far!
Visited NT Sheringham Park today. A must for any tree enthusiast. A stunning display of autumn colours.