Forestry Journal – August 2019

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for Children, Nursery Farm & Forest School,
south-east London.
Excellence in Forestry coordinator Rachel
Thomas said: “A huge thanks to all who
entered and to all our judges. We had a record
entry and the standards were extremely high.
Our thanks also to all our sponsors without
whom the awards would not be possible and
to our judges for their wisdom, enthusiasm
and generosity in the time they have spent
assessing some of the best woodland and
woodland projects in the country.”
The annual Sylva Trophy for outstanding
contributions to forestry was awarded
to forest scientist, author and woodland
owner, Professor Julian Evans. Formerly
professor of forestry at Imperial College,
and before that the Forestry Commission’s
chief research officer at Alice Holt Research
Station, Professor Evans is a fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Foresters and a past
president. He has written, or was a principal
editor of, many technical books on forestry
and tree-related subjects, and was one of
the principal editors of the Encyclopaedia of
Forest Science (Elsevier, 2004). He has chaired

UN intersessional conferences on the future of

planted forests, Chile and New Zealand, and

in 1997 he was appointed OBE for services to

forestry and the developing world.

On receiving the award, he said: “‘I am

humbled, delighted but above all surprised to

receive this great honour. I am doubly blessed

to receive it from Patrick Evelyn, a direct

descendant of the great John Evelyn, as a part

of my own woodland was once owned by the

great man’s sister-in-law. Also, when lecturing

on trees in the Bible, my final quote is always

from Evelyn’s Sylva: ‘In a word, and speak a

bold and noble truth, trees and woods have

twice saved the whole world, first by the ark

and then by the cross; making full amends for

evil fruit of the tree in paradise by that which

was born on the tree in Golgotha.’”

Silviculture winners,

Shere Manor Estate,

Surrey: Rob Coltman

(Tillhill Forestry)

presents the award to

Shere Manor Estate

owner, Mrs Handa Bray

and to her team from

English Woodlands

Ltd and Batcheller

Monkhouse.

Duke of Cornwall

Award for Resilient

Forestry winners,

Bramshill Plantation,

Forestry England:

Michal Pittock,

Michael Orman and Jay

Doyle are presented

with the award by Mark

Townsend (Savills).

Education and Learning

Award winners

Little Birds Forest

Nursery, West Sussex:

Samantha and James

Lovegrove collect the

award from sponsors

John McNee, editor of

Forestry Journal, and

Alun Watkins, PEFC.