Forests of oak, birch and pine once covered the mist-shrouded hills of Ireland’s west coast. But beginning about 6,000 years ago, waves of settlers cut, burned and sent their flocks to graze on ...

For Ireland, this would mean the re-creation of temperate forests of oak, birch, hazel and yew that once covered 80 percent of the land but now — after centuries of timber extraction ...

When it comes to protecting the future of one of Northern Ireland's only native woodlands, a surprising amount of demolition ...

We're proud to say that our original forest in Co Tipperary is now complete ... There are two types of birch in Ireland, downy and silver. The most usual is the downy birch, which like silver ...

birch and other native broadleaves. It is this increased diversity that supports more wildlife. Presently, less than 5% of Ireland’s productive forest is being managed on continuous cover ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Forests of silver birch stretch across Europe ... down to Germany, over to Norway and Ireland, and all the way up to Siberia.” By analyzing the 80 genomes sequenced, the team was able ...

Three firefighters are on a new life-saving mission to revive Ireland’s wild forests – with the help ... hazel, alder, birch, yew, blackthorn and hornbeam – are tagged.” ...

Including hedgerows, motorway plantations and birch monocultures ... More than half of Ireland’s forest cover (and 7 per cent of land in the State) is owned by Coillte, deft exponents of ...

Three firefighters are on a new life-saving mission to revive Ireland’s wild forests – with the help ... hazel, alder, birch, yew, blackthorn and hornbeam – are tagged.” ...