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Work begins on a R&R (Remove and Replant with Native Woodland) site in Ticknock, as part of the second year of operations of the Dublin Mountains Makeover. Work will begin on Tuesday 12th January and will involve clearfelling 2.5ha of mature Sitka spruce and Corsican pine. It will last for approximately 3 weeks. The trails &hellip
Coillte Nature’s ecologist, Dr Declan Little, takes us through the work undertaken in 2020 to restore Hazelwood’s alluvial woodlands When I heard that Coillte had identified Hazelwood’s alluvial forest as a priority for restoration at the National Biodiversity Conference in 2019, I was immediately struck by the merit of selecting this woodland. Alluvial native woodlands &hellip
Dr Declan Little, Coillte Nature’s ecologist, gives an update on the Midlands Native Woodland project. The prospect of leading on this project was very exciting and also somewhat daunting. Having visited the cutaway raised bogs on numerous occasions over the last 25 years or so armed me with the knowledge that native woodland is appropriate &hellip
Watch our end of year video Read our End of Year 2020 Report Director, Dr Ciarán Fallon, looks back on Coillte Nature’s first year of operations and presents a short video on the key highlights. When the Coillte Nature team gathered for the first time back in January in Coillte’s headquarters in Co. Wicklow, we &hellip
Karen Woods, Operations Manager with Coillte Nature, offers a personal reflection on progress made this year on the Dublin Mountains Makeover For me, the Dublin Mountains Makeover is part of a really exciting journey that started 12 years ago when I became the first Recreation Manager with the Dublin Mountains Partnership (DMP). Our early work &hellip
We’re preparing the ground for the first new native woodland in the Dublin Mountains Makeover. In the coming days, visitors to Ticknock will notice foresters with machines ‘mounding’ the site – this means creating small piles of soil in which to plant the young trees – and putting up fencing to keep the hungry deer &hellip