We chat to Pete Etheridge, a woodsman and ecologist who objects to the name of this series because “I don’t really have a career as such; I’m just making it up as I go along!”. Pete talks us through working with the land while learning all that...
For our last interview with Woodland Workers, we chat to the brilliant Kate Mobbs-Morgan. Kate tells us more about working in horse logging, and why this traditional approach to timber extraction is still so important in forestry today. Name: Kate Mobbs-Morgan...
Name: Andrew Heggie Andrew: I am mostly retired now but for 36 years of my working life I was a forest worker and contractor. Initially the work entailed establishment of softwood plantations and later it became a mixture of establishment, domestic tree work and...
Kicking off our series on Woodland Workers, we chat to Volker Schiller about his international forestry career. Volker has worked across the world, from Germany to Papa New Guinea, Namibia and Rwanda to Costa Rica and Mexico, over the the course of 4 decades. Now just...
by Alice West, June 6th 2020 Blue skies at 6am. Skip breakfast, where did I leave the car? Humming south, out of town along the Causeway, internally blessing Matthew, the ornithologist, as I pass his house. Round about, motorway bridge, sudden deep darkness in the...
I found January hard, really quite hard. It wasn’t just work stress or post-Christmas blues, while related to the “Blue Monday” type feel of this time of year, my mind was doing something a little more sinister. This no doubt is left over from 2018 leaving us as a...
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