News

Forest Research is undertaking a major study and asks forestry professionals across Britain to report stem cracks using TreeAlert, the online tree health reporting tool.

Newly published research explains a robust and tested measure to identify the social and cultural values people have for trees and woodland in England.

The UK forest scene recently lost one of its luminaries with the sudden death of Bill Mason in Edinburgh on 8^th June.

Tom Locatelli, Senior Climate Change Scientist and Project Leader – Wind Risk in a Changing Climate, talks about wind risk in forestry and how ForestGALES helps foresters and land managers plan and manage woodlands and forests.

International conference and workshop on wind risk and the ForestGALES/fgr wind risk model successfully delivered in Scotland.

Mark your calendars with dates of major events and shows that we’ll be attending in 2024.

Lord Douglas-Miller OBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at Defra and Minister for Biosecurity, Animal Health and Welfare, visited Forest Research’s Alice Holt research station.

A new national monitoring project aims to help prevent the potential spread of a serious pest affecting spruce trees – the larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus).

Discover Pankajini Samal’s inspirational story as we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Forest Research part of transdisciplinary hub looking to bridge the gap between science and policy to achieve Net Zero.

Forest Lab enables UK woodland managers to become volunteer ‘stewardship scientists’ by joining science projects, collaborating with researchers and sharing data to support woodland resilience.