We have a place called the ecology centre,it's super eco friendly and conservation is the main objection,a guy I support goes once a week and we go with him,cold as fk in the winter though.

trees are wood... we need wood...

crabit is that in Fife? We don't have anything like that here.

I'm in a team with a bunch of different people from different organisations and different reasons for being there. The guy I chat to most is a fungi expert haha not a professional just really loves them. He showed me a fly agaric today I never even seen one before I blurted out something about it being phallic and laughed and some other guy showed me a picture of a stinkhorn he had on his phone. Weirdos! It's cool though I'm having a good time learning so much.

I'm there for the butterflies, seen evidence of frittillary caterpillars today but no sign of them. Maybe I'm a weird for finding that exciting.

I asked why they're cutting down the trees especially the ones I was shown to use brash? (new word to me) to help them grow. Got a big speech about industry before the war

Aye wolf I get that but... we just burnt most of it

Yes Kinghorn Fife it sits on the bank of Kinghorn loch it is beautiful any time of the year.

Trees would do just fine without people meddling.

It's bad for biodiversity to let one tree take over, same for letting them all die at the same time. A woodland is not a tree museum, it's an ecosystem. They need trees of different speices, different ages, they need open grass, they need wildflowers, they need shrubbery.

Last week I was told that there's a belief that we need more trees and if we just plant loads then nature will be ok, and actually we have less wildlife because there's less wild grass growing so our furry critters haven't got many homes, or the space there is, is too spread out and they can't cross from one area to the other safely.

Some of it I just don't get though. On a different site each time I go

wish they'd come cut down that horse chestnut in my garden at autumn if it its not conkers bonking down it's loadsa.leaves like after yesterday's frost.

The forest management occasionally appear busy round here a whole forest of mature pine maybe 50 years old just suddenly disappear for make fence posts n telegraph poles etc , then couple years later it's replanted again

all the ancient native forest trees dont really get touched unless one blows down or damaged in bad storms

sis last year on my birthday I slipped on the leaves off my neighbours cherry tree and put a massive gash in my knee.. I know what you mean ha, I want someone to go and cut the lover down

woodland apparently lasts longer if its used for industrial purposes, since every time they cut a tree it starts its life cycle again. I had trees pointed out to me and told how long ago they were cut and where, one he pointed out was last cut 150 years ago

cutting the trees down allows the sun to the ground, warms it up so new seeds can grow, allowing many more species of plants and animals to live there

Trees fall down themselves. And rather more than most people realise. Everything is a balance - when something gets too popular, it becomes a victim of it's own success, and nature restores balance as the tall side falls. A bit like.. market forces.

The leaves are a real pain for me atm, they're like black ice under the wheels of my bike. But they have more right to be there, they're fertilising the soil.

Come on the tricky trees

the leafmould in forests is very rich and great for your garden only problem being loadsa dormant forest crap in it wants to start growing in your garden.
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Now your an Arborist you need a chainsaw and a few axes n hatchets your neighbours cherry tree needs a a real Good pruning perhaps @ground level

A successful working forest will have multiple levels or stories. Tall trees, medium height trees and bushes and ground level cover and nitrogen fixers. Too much at the highest level will block out the sun, and nothing else can thrive.

I wish I knew a mushroom expert. They are complicated.

Haha yeah they won't let me near a chainsaw need proper training and insurance and all the right clothes

If I hang around they might train me up in the future. They've already offered some training to me. They train up uni students for field work and transects so I'd quite like to go for that too.

Yeah so I'm beginning to appreciate birdy. There's thousands of years of forestry management history in this country. I was reading that current woodland coverage is the same as it was in 1750, and all that work has been done since the 1970s to bring it back after the use of steel and plastics caused many woodlands to die out.

Every day is a school day, I'm loving it

Why do you wish you.knew a fungi expert? I learned about birch bracket and horseshoe fungi yesterday, but I don't find then interesting, I guess cause I don't know enough to see their relevance, and they look really gross, and I'm scared one will poison me.

I just find them interesting, and a lot of them are really pretty, also mushrooms are my favourite food, and I can't forage cause I'd probably die due to lack of knowledge lol

I do know of one woman from this area that takes little foraging tours and she specifically studies fungi, but she's a total bi**h, and I don't like being around bi**hes cause then I turn into one. haha

Lol thought this is a cannabis topic

nomnom what you been upto

dont worry about it, plenty more trees around and they dont feel pain, its not like you hit a kitten over the head with a hammer.