We are hiring! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Talk to Meenu Bhati if you'd like to follow her steps and know her experience and success in securing a fellowship.

Sitka spruce scion collection today from this 60 yr old clone bank.. past regrafting efforts were prioritised based on a selection index that +growth and +straightness breeding values while stabilising density, back to collect from high ranking density clones while we still can

Native Scots pine cone collection is in the bag (quite literally) for a series of new provenance trials to assess local adaption and adaptability. Seedlings will be sown this spring in collaboration with UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and planted out at trial sites after two growing seasons. 🌲1/2

Our "temporary storage shed for cones" AKA the pagoda, immortalised in FC Bulletin 83 (1992) is being retired after ~50(?) years of service and replaced with a new one. £millions of genetic gains have passed through it's arches

🔴 IEFC - Annual General Assembly - 2024 and IEFC's 25th Anniversary🎉. Join us in #Scotland 🗓️4-5 June 2024 📢Registration: bit.ly/3VnS13l 📌Tentative Agenda: bit.ly/3P9xnzE ➡️More information: bit.ly/49IuUEW #plantedforests Forest Research

Our first internship diary comes from Eve, whose internship Forest Research involved learning lots of fieldwork skills and developing her mathematical modelling and R-coding knowledge. tinyurl.com/y5xa8m87

Our latest paper is out! Congratulations Duncan! Well-connected trials show low genotype-by-environment interaction in ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This #PlantHealthWeek our Head of Research, Jo Clark provides an update on the Living Ash Project following 10 yrs of research to restore #ash: livingashproject.org.uk/the-living-ash… Defra UK #NPHW #IPHD APHA Forestry Commission Niab Forest Research KewGardens Nicola Spence CBE

This is the first Sitka spruce graft from the below multi-provenance stiffness (modulus of elasticity) selection campaign to flower on the nursery. This tree's parents are/were from Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaai

Rapid flowering in one year from a couple of spruce grafts - both with fairly precarious looking unions

Controlled (polymix) pollination of Scots pine - very efficient this year in Forestry England's well managed seed orchard Centre for Forest Protection (though it's only about 50 metres into England)

At Northern Research Station we've sown 10 provenances of Scots pine from across Europe (see map)🌲 So far they're growing well! After another growing season they'll be planted at two multispecies common gardens in the UK as part of a wider European network OptFORESTS

One of the reasons I prefer the %consumption imported formulation... the scale of ambition to be 4th or 5th would be unbelievable and we'd still be the "nth largest net importer"

JOB ALERT. I’ve have been waiting to offer this for ~10 years. We’re hiring an Expeditionary Botanist to lead our expeditions, enrich our collections, support our conservation collaborations, and inspire through teaching and engagement. Please RT! 1/6 botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/j…

🌲🧬DO YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME GENETIC GAIN?!?💪🌳 If so, then apply for this job in my team Forest Research by 15 Jan to help in the day-to-day running of tree improvement programmes and applied research projects. Forest Genetics Operations Manager civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

Apply by tomorrow 15 Jan before the rather peculiar time of 1545 UTC (UK time)