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Autumn/winter issue 2018

The theme of our Autumn/Winter issue is ‘By Leaves We Learn’ and we take a look at various aspects of education and learning outdoors, including the Shieling Project, Upstart Scotland and Forestry Ambassadors. Other subjects include the impact of herbivores on the forest understorey and attitudes to wolves. Regular features include Buildings of the Forest on huts for management; Beasts of the Forest on wild boar;  and Food from the Forest on mushroom logs. Artists in Wood looks at the Peebles Wood Market and Eamonn Wall explains how to prune broadleaved trees. Plus news, book reviews and more!

Articles include:

Juliet Robertson: By leaves we learn
Mairi McFadyen: The Shieling Project – embedding people within a healthy land
Sue Palmer: Upstart – Why children need to learn about nature through hand, heart and head*
Elizabeth Barron-Majerik: Tertiary education – the Forestry Ambassadors
Karen Grant: Glasgow School of Art*
Elizabeth Marshall: What is a wolf? The power of the cultural icon versus the animal
Adele Clarke: 8 Shields – The art of mentoring and learning
Kate Holl: Where have all the flowers gone?*
Buildings of the forest: Huts and bothies for woodland management*
Artists in Wood: Peebles Wood Market
Beasts of the forest: Wild boar
Food from the forest: Growing mushrooms on wood
A reader writes… Pruning broadleaves*
Last Word: Cathy Bache

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