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A Burren farmer committed “a heinously illegal act” when felling trees on his lands without a licence. That is according to Judge Patrick Durcan who fined David McMahon €600 after convicting the father-of-two for removing trees without a licence at Conga, Ruan, Co. Clare between September 1, 2018 and November 30, 2018. Counsel for the Minister for Agriculture, Thomas Wallace O’Donnell told the court that the department’s own estimate is that 40,000 trees were felled. O’Donnell told the court: “The department views this case as very serious.” Forestry Act 2014 It is understood ...

  Article PICTURES: Coigach and Assynt Living Landscapes helps plant more than one million trees on crofts across northern Scotland as part of a project by Croft Woodland Project in partnership with Woodland Trust Scotland By Ian Duncan  |  Updated: 23:28, 11 December 2020 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Gallery1 A Highland organisation has helped with a project which has been extended beyond its initial five-year phase because of its success. Coigach and Assynt Living Landscapes was one of a number of gr...

  Article PICTURES: Coigach and Assynt Living Landscapes helps to plant more than one million trees on crofts across northern Scotland as part of a project by Croft Woodland Project in partnership with Woodland Trust Scotland By Ian Duncan Published: 00:01, 11 December 2020 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Gallery1 A Highland organisation has helped with a project which has been extended beyond its initial five year phase because of its success. Coigach and Assynt Living Landscapes was one of a number of groups...

Two million more trees to be planted on croft land

Farmer hits back over flood work on protected river >More in John Price © Richard Stanton A Herefordshire farmer who used a 16t bulldozer to repair soil erosion along a flood-prone stretch of a protected river has responded to claims that he acted unlawfully. John Price, a potato, cereal and beef farmer, carried out the erosion work on a mile-long stretch of the River Lugg in Kingsland, near Leominster. He said he undertook the work, with the support of the parish council, because the Environment Agency (EA) told him he was in breach...