CCFG Events Programme
All field meetings are open to members and non-members. Students are strongly encouraged to attend all our events (at no charge).
Full details and downloadable fliers for each event will be posted on the website as arrangements are firmed up. Members also receive occasional e-mail bulletins to keep them up to date with arrangements.
Programme for 2012
A stimulating programme of events is being prepared for 2012 and we have the following dates for your diaries:
- Wed 2 May - Annual General Meeting,
- Wed 20 June - English technical site visit to Morton Hall, Nottinghamshire;
- Wed 27 - Sat 30 June, Pro Silva Europe Annual Meeting in Pays de la Loire, 'the kingdom of oaks';
- Thurs 6 Sept - Scottish technical site visit - location to be confirmed;
- Wed 3 Oct - Welsh technical site visit - location to be confirmed.
Annual Meeting and AGM
Wed 2nd May 2012, 10.00 am
This year's annual meeting is being hosted by the Forestry Commission and will be held in Scotland and Wales using their video conferencing facilities at:
- Northern Research Station, Roslin, near Edinburgh, EH25 9SY (link for location map)
- Forestry Commission Wales, Welsh Assembly, Rhodfa Padarn, Llanbardarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, SY23 3UR (location map)
The meeting is open to all members, but please notify Gill Pemberton (Tel 01361 840 230) if you are planning to attend so that she can arrange an entry permit for you.
English Technical Site Visit
Morton Hall, Ranby, nr. Retford, Notts DN22 8HW
Wednesday 20th June
In the morning we shall visit 9.9 ha of acid oak dominated woodland known as Home Wood, Morton Hall, which has been managed by a group selection system since the mid 1980s. The approach was based on a 10 year management cycle which involved identifying and planting two or three gaps of an averge size of 0.1 ha every other year, plus managing the matrix using a 'target' diameter distribution for an uneven aged stand using the BDq method.
The following article gives more information about Home Wood and we are grateful to the Royal_Forestry_Society for allowing us to include it on our website: 'Implementing continuous cover forestry in a mixed broadleaved woodland in north Nottinghamshire: results after twenty years' by W.L. Mason & I.J. Glenny, published in the RFS Quarterly Journal of Forestry 103, in July 2009. The article was the winner of the RFS James Cup for the Best Article in the QJF in 2009.
In the afternoon we shall visit another nearby location wich is still to be confirmed.
Pro Silva Europe Annual Meeting
La Ferteé Bernard (Sarthe - France)
Wed 27 June - Sat 30 June, 2012
As the UK member of Pro Silva Europe, we are allocated a few places at their Annual Meetings, which give an opportunity to learn more about practices elsewhere in Europe, and to exchange ideas and make new contacts and friends.
This year's meeting will include visits to see management of high oak forest in the National Forest of Bercé and several private forests (view programme).
The number of places available is very limited, but if any member is particularly keen to attend this year's meeting please contact Gill Pemberton
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