Blogs about trees:
- Britain’s complex relationship with the sycamore tree
- Swiss Alps: where sycamore trees feel at home
- The ash tree’s survival
- The veteran oaks of Dulwich Park – Dulwich Society journal
- Białowieża, Europe’s mythical forest
- The threat to English woodlands is a challenge to our collective sense of place
- After Oaken Wood, ‘biodiversity’ has come to mean very little
- In search of Mayo’s native woodlands
- Somewhere between the woods and the water
- Why do people hate ivy?
- The mysteries of the night wood remain
- The promise of woodland
Woods and trees are one of my core interests. I aim to explore the historical, ecological and symbolic importance they hold for people. My regional areas of interest are currently West Sussex and the South Downs.
I post pieces exploring our relationship with woods and trees, their conservation and wildlife.
Sydenham Hill Wood
My understanding of woods and trees was developed during my time volunteering and then working for London Wildlife Trust at Sydenham Hill Wood in south-east London. I led over 700 workdays with volunteers and over 150 events with more than 6000 attendees.
I worked at Sydenham Hill Wood across seven years, beginning as a volunteer and taking on the role of Conservation Project Officer 18 months later. In 2022 for 2 years I returned as Project Manager to support the delivery of National Lottery Heritage Fund projects.
Reuniting Sydenham Hill Wood & Dulwich Wood
Between 2023-2024 I worked as the Project Manager developing the National Lottery Heritage Fund project to bring together Sydenham Hill Wood & Dulwich Wood as one coherent site. Working with partners in the community and colleagues at London Wildlife Trust, I produced a management plan for Dulwich Wood.
In July 2024 London Wildlife Trust were awarded over £1million to deliver the 3-year project to reunite the woods.
Explore my woodland archive in full here.
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A great thing to see you care so much to preserve the wild! Live in the forest for 6 years of Northern California, and miss the trees, since we moved to Texas in Aug. 2020. There maybe some wild areas in this state, but haven’t been looking for it yet.
Hi Junie, I don’t know very much about Texan landscapes, but I imagine it’s quite hot and dry? I also haven’t been to California but there are lots of redwoods is that right?
I worked in the woods for 6 years and I take the experience of being close to trees with me wherever I am. It’s not something I want to let go of!
Daniel
Yes, close to Yosemite Nat. Park (Mid-East of CA are the giant Red woods. Used to go there every year for a week in summer for about 18 years (that’s where I learned watercolor painting). We lived North East of that, close to the Nevada border. We had mostly pines, sugar pines, and California Black Oak on our property. Am homesick for the trees, and I can’t believe this is coming out of my mouth, because for the rest of my life I have and now again, live in the suburbs and city. Texas is hot and humid (lots of mosquitoes). But the culture is more relaxed here, and everything is big:)Yes, don’t let go of your knowledge of trees, it’s so valuable!