Panel discussions will be chaired by Professor Nicola Spence, Defra’s chief plant health officer, and by biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts.
Keynote speakers include: Jaboury Ghazoul, director of the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes at the University of Edinburgh; Chris Quine, chief scientist at Forest Research (FR); Geraint Richards, head forester at the Duchy of Cornwall chair of Action Oak.
“An incredible range of presentations and workshops is expected to create new conversations, insights and actions across the research and forestry practitioner communities. With so much change and uncertainty, close collaboration between these communities is more important than ever,” said Simon Lloyd, chief executive of the RFS.
Workshops include topics such as climate smart forestry, natural regeneration, managing changing treescapes. More than 30 presentations and 20 posters will represent a wide spectrum of research into all aspects of woodland management and forestry.
Delegates can also opt for an additional guided tour of the only forest scale Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) facility in the Northern Hemisphere (BIFoR) at Norbury Park in Staffordshire on Day 3 (July 3).
