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Share your forest get-together

August 22nd, 2011 by

Forest

Photograph by Jeff Hester

Last week, 38 Degrees members started organising and attending get-togethers in their local forests, woods and parks all over the country to show the forest panel that there are hundreds of thousands of us who love our forests and want to see them protected. We asked members to collect together the photos, stories and videos of their event so we can take them to our meeting with the forest panel as powerful proof that 38 Degrees members want our forests looked after for future generations.

Do you have photos, stories and videos to share from a forest get-together?

  • If you have digital photos, you can share them on our Facebook page, through our website by adding them in the comments below or you can email them to emailtheteam@38degrees.org.uk
  • If you have print photos to share, you can post them to the 38 Degrees offices using this address: 40 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0NE.
  • If you have a video of your forest get-together, you can email them to emailtheteam@38degrees.org.uk or upload onto YouTube and share the link on our Facebook page.
  • If you have any stories, drawings or anything else you’d like to share about your forest get-together, you can email them to us at emailtheteam@38degrees.org.uk, post them to the above address or adding them to the comments section below.

Are you planning to attend or organise a forest get-together in the near future?

There is still time to organise a forest get-together in your local area. If you want to see whether there is a forest get-together in your area, click here

If there currently isn’t a forest get-together in your area, why not organise one? Here is a Guide, FAQ’s and Hints & Tips on how to organise a forest get-together. Remember, take lots of photos on the day!

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  • Alec Dauncey

    Are we doing anything to highlight the less attractive features of some forestry in England? These could be key to actually having better policy? Here is an example of coniferous clearfelling and plantation forestry in Northumberland for instance:
    http://forestrypolicy.blogspot.com/2011/02/one-of-englands-public-forests-view.html

  • Nelljpursey

    Thanks 38 Degrees Team for all your efforts to protect and safeguard all the things we hold dear such as our Forests. The message to the Panel is clear and simple – Look after, maintain, create public areas of recreation, camping, hiking, historical guides/maps where appropriate etc within the forests as presumably “The Forestry Commission/Department” have being doing in the past and should continue to be doing long into the future. I do not see why we have to justify the ownership of our Forests nor have to give ideas to the Panel – it is fairly self-evident and self-explanatory what needs to be done. The Forests belong to the people and the Government must maintain and preserve them in perpetuity. They’ve got years of experience and other countries like Canada to emulate if they want to. Best wishes,
    Nell Pursey 

    PS: And why are you only getting ‘a few minutes’ to tell the Panel what is actually a very big issue, one which will require a couple of hours at least, not just ‘a few minutes’ to give them the full picture and aspirations of the people??

  • Alec Dauncey

    @107ab3b8f94b37b3cfaae61cb2b4c0bd:disqus  I wish I was so confident that the Forestry Commission as the government would always do the right thing. About 70% of the public forests are exotic conifer plantations. There has been some effort to change them in recent years, but still very large areas are clearfelled each year and replanted with about 80% of another rotation of conifer plantation….. I think that unfortunately its not that clear and simple…we need a rather complex and sophisticated message to deal with that….
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/21/forestry-scarred-first-world-war

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  • Alec Dauncey

    Thanks for the comment. I’m worried that the furore over ownership has distracted, big time, from HOW the forests are managed. I do not think all is well in the government managed forests.
    More here:
    http://forestrypolicy.blogspot.com/2011/05/future-of-englands-forests.html

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