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It is with immense sorrow that I have to announce the death of Brice de Turckheim. Brice suffered a brain haemorrhage in early December but sadly died from complications following a chest infection on Friday morning.

He will be buried in the family cemetery at a private funeral on Monday. A remembrance service will be held at the Presbyterian Church of Heiligenstein at…

After five years as chairperson of ProSilva Netherlands Susan is stepping down to concentrate on her work at the Staatsbosbeheer and to spend more time with her family.

The new chairperson of PS Netherlands will be René Olthof who is well know to many of us who attended the ProSilva meeting in the Netherlands in 2010. René is a forester at the Royal Het Loo forests and is an experienced advocate of close to nature forestry.

We thank Susan for her very…

Sean Hoskins has just written a great post on the recent ProSilva Ireland Open Forest day in Ireland, over 70 people turned up to hear about permanent, non-clearfell, close-to-nature continuous cover forestry http://prosilvaireland.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/managing-the-forest-that-builds-itself/

An important new publication which will be of interest to many of our members Developing the Full Potential of the Forest: Management of Irregular Forests (2011).

It has been translated by Phil Morgan, President of the UK Pro Silva Close to Nature – Continuous Cover Forestry group, CCFG.

In the new publication the French…