{"id":18470,"date":"2025-08-05T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:38:36","slug":"outdoor-forest-training-is-back-join-the-two-day-workshop-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/2025\/08\/05\/outdoor-forest-training-is-back-join-the-two-day-workshop-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Forest training is back: Join the two-day workshop in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This September, forest owners, forestry professionals, and nature enthusiasts are invited to two new outdoor workshops in Ireland, organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/teagasc.ie\/\">Teagasc Forestry Development Department<\/a> in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine\/\">Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) Forestry Division<\/a>. The events are coordinated by Integrate Network chairs Jonathan Spazzi and Dermot Dunphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both workshops will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/teagasc.ie\/crops\/forestry\/advice\/management\/continuous-cover-forestry\/the-marteloscope-training-network\/\">marteloscope training facility<\/a> in Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre, Carlow \u2013 also the site of an interactive field exercise during the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/event\/11th-integrate-network-annual-meeting\/\">11th Integrate Network Annual Meeting<\/a> (7\u201310 October 2025, Ireland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants will explore how forest management can support biodiversity and multifunctional forest use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Workshop 1<\/strong> focuses on enhancing biodiversity through forest management practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Workshop 2<\/strong> explores how to balance timber production with biodiversity goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each workshop is a stand-alone event, but together they offer a well-rounded, two-day introduction to close-to-nature forest management. Designed to be accessible and practical for forest owners, the sessions are equally relevant to forestry professionals and the wider public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Register <a href=\"https:\/\/teagasc.ie\/crops\/forestry\/news\/close-to-nature-forest-management-workshops\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credits: Jonathan Spazzi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This September, forest owners, forestry professionals, and nature enthusiasts are invited to two new outdoor workshops in Ireland, organised by the Teagasc Forestry Development Department in collaboration with the Department&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[80,127,150],"tags":[27,24,26,29],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-event","category-forestry","tag-biodiversity","tag-forest-management","tag-integrated-forest-management","tag-marteloscopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18528,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions\/18528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratenetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}