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Stansted Park Summer Festival 15th 16th July 2023
Powell Forestry were very proud to take part in Stansted Estate’s summer festival this year
where we displayed our John Deere 1270E Harvester and 1100E Forwarder
along with a Merlo and other forestry related items in the Woodland section of the event.
Stansted Park Estate (on the Hampshire Sussex border) maintains all 476 ha of their woodland and is celebrated as one of the best-managed estates in the South East. We’ve been working with the Park on their forestry operations for the past 10 years and loved the opportunity to be involved in the festival. It was a great chance to engage the public and show how modern forestry is a integral part of a well-managed diverse estate.
The festival is a fantastic array of equipment, woodland craft, mock battles and reenactments, classic cars and live music. It’s going to be back again next year on 13/14 July and we really recommend it for a great family day out.
Move to Chas Advanced accreditation
Powell forestry is proud to announce that it now has achieved the certification for Chas Advances, previously the company was certified under EuroSafe UK for its SSIP and safety accreditation. Powell Forestry has Health & Safety at the core of its business and it wanted to challenge its systems and processes with the advances certification the certification also included the PAS 91 module which requires us to demonstrate your compliance with equality and diversity legislation, such as the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998.
Congratulations to English Woodlands Forestry for the Best of the Best Silviculture award.
Congratulations to English Woodlands Forestry Limited for the award of the Royal Forestry Aware for the Best of the Best Silviculture award at Shere Manor Estate.
The 300 ha of Hurt Wood on the Shere Manor Estate near Peaslake was once single aged maturing Scot’s Pine across an area of heathland.
An annual programme of thinning, felling and regeneration began in 2007. It was this programme which was the focus for the award. There has been a move towards continuous cover forestry and the introduction of Douglas fir. This supplements Scot’s pine and increases diversity in the face of climate change.
Powell Forestry has worked closely with the Foresters at EWFL thinning the mature pine crops in a sensitive manner to produce the regeneration criteria they were looking for. We followed the harvesting with a programme of mulching and brush cutting to control invasive Rhododendron, gaultheria and bracken.
Ips typographus, the larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle arrives in the UK
The larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) has arrived in the UK, this pest has the potential of devastating much of our Norway Spruce plantations. There is now a demarcation area covering much of the south of England placing restrictions on the movement and felling of the spruce with our authorisation. SPHN (statutory plant health notices) have been placed on many Spruce plantations requiring a compulsory felling of the crop
Powell Forestry has been actively involved in the work to deal with the out break of the beetle, we have responded by ensuring we have approved suppliers set up with in the demarcation area who are able to take this material and provide the land owner with a commercial return for there timber
Powell Forestry sits on the panel of the IPS industrial group working with the Plant health team at the forestry commission to manage and eradicate the
threat of Ips typographus.
Please also find links below to the new Ips guidance infographic and animation, as well as to the updated Ips page and related Twitter post. If you can please share these through your networks that would be much appreciated. The infographic is attached as well for circulation.
Larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) - GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eight-toothed-european-spruce-bark-beetle-ips-typographus
Forestry Commission:
Forestry Commission YouTube: