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February 2006

Published: 8 Mar 2006

• Forest Research joins INNOFORCE project
• Launch of new website to promote Best Practice for Land Regeneration
• Getting it together: Sirex woodwasp – Amylostereum symbiosis on pines
• The Royal Society funding opportunities for UK - South African research
• New publications
• Forthcoming events

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January 2006

Published: 2 Feb 2006

• Innovation funding success
• Head of South East Development Agency visits Alice Holt
• Forest Research's Official Seed Tetsing Station to close
• Staff news
• 'Woodlands for Wales' Strategy meeting
• Collaboration with English Heritage
• Horse chestnut bleding canker: new website resources
• A new website to promote development of woodland recreation
• New land regeneration website
• Publications
• Taking action on sustainable development
• Forthcoming events

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December 2005

Published: 22 Dec 2005

• Surveying underway at Jeskyn's Farm
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology to restructure
• Nepal expedition to investigate Phytophthora pathogens
• Forest Focus BIOSOIL project
• Visit by agricultural and forestry policy makers from China

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November 2005

Published: 5 Dec 2005

• UK Forest Industries R&D Group formed - and Technology Platform progresses
• Progressing softwood production forecasts
• Continuous cover forestry in China
• Forest Research’s chemical analysis highly rated
• Europe’s forests are increasing, says the most detailed and comprehensive assessment of the world’s forests ever undertaken
• Black squirrels
• Results of Eire’s BioForest Project
• Engineered wetland habitat systems
• Plant threats: focus on global pathways
• Top marks for Forest Schools!
• ECE Forest Communicators Network in Bialowieza Forest, Poland
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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October 2005

• Forest Research tests new monitoring system for spruce bark beetle
• Strategic timber research
• Cumbrian woodfuel workshop
• Survey techniques ‘Czeched out’ in Prague
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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September 2005

• Forest Research’s partnership with National Arboreta at Westonbirt and Bedgebury
• Forest Research website passes the million mark
• Chief Executive visits Malaysian Forestry Research Institute
• Microbial diversity in forest soils
• Forest Research joins SPIRE's strategy steering group
• Developments in countryside recreation
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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August 2005

• Report from Forestry World Congress in Brisbane
• Sustainable Development Commission publish wood fuel heating report
• Forest Research represents UK at Perth biomass workshop
• ForestGALES software used in Puerto Rico hurricane research
• EU Phytophthora ramorum project reaches mid-point
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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July 2005

• Proposed changes to Forest Research’s powers in England and Wales
• Forest Research joins new EU project to examine innovation in forest recreation
• Scottish Executive consults on Scottish forestry industry
• Forthcoming events

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June 2005

• ‘Trees in a changing climate’ conference
• Small cow-wheat species recovery project
• Forest Research scopes the potential for charcoal in remediation
• WIAT initiative?
• Chopwell Wood Health pilot scheme extended
• Forest Research represents UK at ICP Forests meeting
• World Renewable Energy Congress
• Norwegians genotype Forest Research’s larch collection
• Forest Research assists Macaulay Institute's landscape research week at Huntly
• Putting Ponticum to Bed(dgelert)!
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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May 2005

• Germination of an endangered Chilean conifer
• SENSOR project underway
• Climate change in the Scottish uplands
• VISULANDS project progresses
• Forestry Commission Scotland’s Native Woodlands Survey
• International CleanUp Exhibition 2005
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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April 2005

• IUFRO‘Sustainable Forestry in Theory and Practice ‘ Conference
• Forest Research participates in DTI woodfuel supply chain mission to US
• EFORWOOD progresses
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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March 2005

• Forest Research retain Pesticide Safety Directorate Accreditation
• TimberTherm software attracts international attention
• Improved Sitka spruce
• Social Forestry
• Urban pollutants contract
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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February 2005

• Scottish Crossbill
• Forest Research to evaluate Sport England projects
• Next steps for LIDAR in Dean project
• New study investigating the role of floodplain forestry at Ripon
• National Populetum at Alice Holt
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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January 2005

• Forest Research as Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 'academic analogue'
• Forest Research wins contract to develop Forest Habitat Network for Scotland
• Forest Research wins biomass contract for Sustainable Development Commission Scotland
• Overgrazing study completed
• Trees for Life
• Innovation: progressing registration of butt rot bio-control
• Update on Phytophthora ramorum and kernoviae
• Focus on black poplar scab
• Scottish Woodland History Discussion Group meeting
• Climate change and soil function
• ECOSLOPES
• Irish draw on UK expertise to manage peatland catchments
• Chinese visit Northern Research Station
• Forthcoming events
• New publications

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November 2004

• Forest Research wins English Nature contract for wet woodlands
• Forest Research wins new contract for Scottish habitat networks
• Commissioners praise progress in habitat networks and Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF)
• Strategic Tree Risk Management
• Forestry Woodchain Conference
• Urban Greening team exhibit at EA Conference
• Focus on Forest Health
• New handbook launched at Scots Pine Rural Development conference
• Aberfoyle meeting on timber quality and CCF
• Senior Forest Enterprise staff review Sitka spruce gains
• Hydrology update
• Climate change
• BIHIP AGM and Field Day
• New and forthcoming publications

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September 2004

• One year on…
• Arrivals and new appointments
• Divisional structures take shape
• APF 2004
• EFI Conference
• Green light for bioindicators
• Phytophthora workshop
• Lowland habitat networks
• Norwegian soil ‘quality’ studies
• Incidence of red band needle blight rises
• Rhizosphere Conference
• Root and butt rot
• Timber Properties Programme
• Tree biomechanics
• Indian Foresters train at Alice Holt
• Socio-economic seminar
• Wallenburg Prize Ceremony
• Forthcoming events
• New book

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August 2004

• Ben Bradshaw visits Alice Holt
• Anthony Bosanquet, FC Commissioner visits Alice Holt
• CEO visits America
• Breakthrough in battle against Rhododendron ponticum
• IoW magistrate highlights red squirrells’ importance after radio hoaxes
• Buckets of success
• UNESCO praises Selvagens Islands eradication programme
• Antipodean speakathon gets underway
• Forthcoming events

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July 2004

• Beetles in the spotlight at Royal Society Exhibition
• First meeting of Heads of European National Forest Research Institutions
• Phytobial Remediation
• Accessibility of Woodlands
• Valuing woodlands
• The Future of Trees
• Native Pinewoods Conference
• BEGIN: Biomass for Energy Genetic Improvement Network
• ‘Woodfuel – getting it right’ Workshop and launch of new woodfuel information packs
• Forthcoming events

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June 2004

• Forest Research’s new organisational structure takes shape
• Advisory Committee on Forest Research appoints 2004 Visiting Groups
• FC’’s Expert Group on Research and Devellopment
• Professor Lynch honoured
• OST sellects ForestGALES as examplle case study
• Forest Research short listed for Work Experience Award
• Forest Research selected for Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
• Fielldwork completed for Defra sustainablle grazing methodology study
• NIWT2 consultations underway
• Focus on birch dieback
• The virtues of cold storage in Icelland
• Beijing Plant Protection Congress
• Consultations progress on FC science strategy
• Phytophthora taxon sp. C

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