As part of the Dublin Mountains Makeover, some areas of forest are being managed under Continuous Cover Forestry. In a guest blog for this newsletter, Laura Harris, PhD student at Maynooth University, tells us about the process of underplanting native saplings to speed up the regeneration process where thinning has taken place...learn more 

'I went out to the hazel wood, because a fire was in my head...' wrote W B Yeats in The Song of Wandering Aengus. Those who visit Hazelwood in Co. Sligo this season will see that after much planning, clearing of invasive species and careful marking of trees for CCF management, this CCF thinning is now underway. This will improve the diversity of species and structure in this special woodland.