A tree fell on my head yesterday. Just a little tree, of course; more like a branch. But I was doing the usual forester’s thing of never looking up and whizzing along the rows…
Woodland Heritage is often asked how much carbon dioxide (CO2) might be sequestered, or “locked up”, offset or “fixed” in the wood of trees as they grow.
I have to admit that I have always been quick to criticise the National Trust, especially when they let mature trees just rot and disintegrate instead of harvesting them…
Tree growing is very much at the heart of Woodland Heritage. When we first started in 1993 we declared that one of our aims was to "help double the tree cover in the UK"…