Forestry industry needs to stop milking tax payers for climate and biodiversity greenwash, a con, shysters, ready to hear how all woods need felling for nature to thrive so the insatiable demand for money can be met, plantations on peat, biomass con, filthy lying bullshit https://twitter.com/stephenworoniec/status/1356147251345817600

Sad as forestry can be carried out in a responsible way taking account of biodiversity and climate, producing products we use, time for good foresters to denounce bad, so similar to farming and shooting, the good protect the rotten by association.

Return of puma

Louisiana black bear

Bottomwood and bayou

Or clear cut

Predator death

Biomass the reality

In UK we can support traditional coppice

High Forest

Plantations which build in biodiverse habitat

Or plant this on biodiverse open habitats, peat

something forestry policy in UK says we should not, but some in industry yearn to do as £ is all that matters to them

The Flows Sutherland, trees as a tax dodge not as a crop

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Lindsay3/publication/49290377_The_flow_country_the_peatlands_of_Caithness_and_Sutherland/links/0f31752ed52a6c7677000000/The-flow-country-the-peatlands-of-Caithness-and-Sutherland.pdf?origin=publication_detail

A conservation victory the tax dodgers and crooks have never forgiven, it derailed their con for a bit, but biomass and climate lies have given them a new way of milking us the tax payer while

damaging climate and biodiversity and making peoples homes unliveable

@DogwoodAlliance

Black communities get the polluting pellet plants which our biomass taxes pay for

Biodiverse forests, carbon sequestration in growing trees, damage to health, a con, our UK responsibility.

The forestry industry can be a force for good, it is needed, time for abuses to be in past with such damaging extractive industries as whaling.

Per is a highly regarded ornithologist / ecologist, he knows the truth of Swedish forestry

https://www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/vad-vi-gor/skog/vart-arbete/arterna-vi-vill-radda/conservation-of-the-white-backed-woodpecker

http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/woodpecker.pdf

just one of many biological warnings that the forestry policy is failing, the miners canary warning of a damaged ecosystem https://twitter.com/alstromper/status/1355925430063288329

British people should be allies of @DogwoodAlliance we are paying for their problems, their fight is our fight, their nature is something that should matter as much to us as our own

Watch out in UK, old coppice is not dead, biodiversity is changed but still rich, converting it into a biomass plantation will be a major loss of biodiversity done for £ not nature

This is not helping carbon sequestration or biodiversity

It is not local sustainable coppice

This is

becoming this, to simplify succession and forest management

This may seem unrelated to forest management but I have seen coppice stool clearance and replanting in broadleaf using diggers / tractors in which it looked much like plough so great damage to soil

Our ancient woods were worked by horses, my father remembered the deep ruts of horse drawn limber wagons in Wyre Forest on rides in 1920s, but in coppice a horse tushing out timber caused no such damage

Our ancient woods may have been cut and planted in for centuries but the soil in a pre-mechanical era was largely undisturbed a truly precious rare resource, once lost never regained.

Accidents happen I recollect a foresters great anger that contractors ignored him and put dozer blade down and scraped away birds-nest orchid in early 1990s cleaning up damage, it made him so angry as in 1960s he had struggled to establish beech in a wood pillaged for timber and

bulldozed by looters with no standards. He taught me to guard against such contractors and timber merchants, estate foresters knew the abusive practises of industry.

They protected woods on estates for centuries against looting.

* high forest example best I could find on google image, even aged, lacking shrub layer, no old trees, much no good, but also some good