Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

philsturgeon.com

30 September 2026 17:15

RE the 500k new trees in England. Forestry Journal: “The scheme is designed to support the planting of trees outside traditional woodlands, bringing more canopy cover into towns, cities and rural communities“ So the Guardian use a photo of woodland creation. 👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andrew Heald

andyheald.bsky.social

28 September 2026 09:43

My social feeds are full of posts about the APF (UK’s biggest forestry show). I’ve not yet spotted any from people researching/working on landuse policy, or bioeconomy or wider net zero. A missed opportunity for foresty &/or just a lack of awareness outside the sector ?

Andrew Heald

andyheald.bsky.social

10 August 2026 08:00

The @theferret.scot recently published an “investigation” into public sector forestry. Their focus was on which forestry tree species were present in the UK 8,000 yrs ago. Had the journalists actually spoken to people working in those forests, they might’ve written a very different article ⬇️

Kirsty

kirstynicol.bsky.social

26 May 2026 08:18

Always fascinating when folks say things like '30 minutes from Edinburgh'. I wonder where they stick the pin? Nearest Local Authority boundary? That would be doable in a jolly sight less. Somewhere like the end of Princes St? Well, ye-es but only if you made your journey at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Andrew Heald

andyheald.bsky.social

01 May 2026 08:40

This is the reality of tree planting and woodland creation in the U.K. and especially in Scotland. The @thecccuk.bsky.social set clear 🌳🌲targets for Governments. Due to deeply entrenched silo’d polices on land use and a failure of leadership, those targets are missed year after year after year…