Free Event
By Aviemore Inverness-shire PH22
1QH
The growing number of woodfuel installations is driving growth
in woodfuel demand. This provides opportunities to increase
forest structural and species diversity, to bring
previously uneconomic or undermanaged forests into sustainable
management, and to create new woodlands, while maximising
financial and environmental benefits.
The opportunities for woodland owners
are significant and not restricted to professionally managed,
large forests. Market expansion is providing room for all levels of
production, from the small to large scale; even small
woodlands have the potential to supply wood fuel economically
on a local scale.
This two day event will demonstrate
multi-purpose woodland management for woodfuel
and biodiversity and show how woodfuel can have wider
environmental benefits beyond its impact on carbon footprints.
Delegates are welcome to attend both days, or just one. Each day
will start with presentations from experts in the morning,
which will be followed by site visits and practical
demonstrations in the afternoon.
Programme
Day 1:
0830 - Coffee and Registration
0900 - Introduction and
Welcome - Amanda Calvert,Highland Birchwoods
0905 - General Introduction to Rothiemurchus Estate
and Woodland Management Aims - Piers Voysey, Rothiemurchus
Estate
0935 - Environmental Impacts and Best Practice for
Woodfuel Extraction - Cecile Smith, SNH
1005 - Aspen Management for Biodiversity - John
Parrot, Scottish Native Woods
1035 - Coffee
1050 - Creating a Coppice
Site - Donald McPhillimy
1120 - Practical Workshop:Minimal Impact
Extraction
1230 - Lunch
1330 - Practical
Workshop:Coppicing
1600 - Close
Day 2:
0930 - Coffee and Registration
1000 - Introduction and
Welcome - Fiona Strachan, Highland Birchwoods
1005 - Multi-purpose Continuous Cover - Alan
Harrison, Forest Research
1035 - Multi-purpose Forest Management: An Estate
Experience - Will
Anderson, Seafield Estate
1105 - Woodfuel and Forest Management in the
Private Sector - Bruce Taylor,
Scottish Woodlands
1135 - Coffee
1150 - Pinewoods
Management Guidance - Colin Edwards, Forest Research
1220 - Woodland Management for Capercaillie - Tim
Poole, Capercaillie Project Officer
1250 - Lunch
1350 - Site
visits/Demonstrations:Thinning for Biodiversity and Wood
fuel Minimal Impact Extraction
1600 - Close
To Book a place please return the form
below by Friday 5th
November 2010 to:
Amanda Calvert at
Highland Birchwoods, Littleburn Road,
Munlochy, Ross-shire, IV8
8NN
Amanda.calvert@highlandbirchwoods.co.uk
Registration
For more information please feel free
to contact Fiona Strachan at
fiona.strachan@highlandbirchwoods.co.uk or Amanda Calvert at
amanda.calvert@highlandbirchwoods.co.uk
Or phone on 01463 811186
Details of accommodation in the area
will be sent together with confirmation of your place