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March 1, 2021 11:46 am Last week (Thursday, February 25), the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine revealed ‘Project Woodland’ – a new strategy to address the issues in the forestry sector. The initiative comes on the back of a report by Jo O’Hara, a private consultant who was formally a British forestry commissioner; the chief forester for Scotland; and the chief executive of Scottish Forestry. Her report was commissioned by the department in the hope that it would suggest ways to implement the recommendations of an earlier report – the Mackinnon Report – into the vario...

Mike Nielsen bought timber permits from the state to harvest thousands of cords of wood on state-managed lands.

December 18, 2020 9:57 am Funding will be made available in January for initiatives aimed at promoting forestry and the “benefits of trees and woodlands”. This is according to Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity Pippa Hackett, who yesterday (Thursday, December 17) hosted the second meeting of the newly established Forestry Policy Group. Speaking afterwards, the minister said: “However, our priorities and objectives for new afforestation have changed over time as we have developed a greater appreciation of the multiple roles that forestry plays… This mus...