Urban tree canopy has become one of the fastest-growing areas of public tree planting in the United States. Cities from Phoenix to Detroit are pledging to plant hundreds of thousands of street trees to cool neighbourhoods, clean the air and correct decades of uneven investment. Behind the headline numbers sits a practical question every program…

Native woodland creation in Scotland is some of the most ambitious in Europe. From the remnants of the ancient Caledonian Forest to vast landscape-scale rewilding in the Highlands, Scotland is working to restore native pinewood, birch and montane scrub across ground that has been bare for centuries. The vision is expansive — but the practical…

Rewilding in Europe has moved from a fringe idea to a continent-wide movement, with Germany, France and Portugal each restoring native woodland at scale. The approaches differ — from Germany’s abandoned military land to Portugal’s fire-scarred hills — but the establishment challenge is shared: young native trees have to survive browsing, drought and competition long…

Protecting seedlings from deer and other browsing wildlife is one of the biggest factors deciding whether a North American planting succeeds or quietly fails in its first few seasons. Across the United States and Canada, foresters contend with white-tailed and mule deer, elk, rabbits and hares, and root-gnawing voles — each capable of stunting or…

Tree shelters and carbon credits are more closely linked than most planters realise. As woodland carbon schemes mature, the materials you use to establish a planting — fencing, ground preparation and tree protection — are increasingly counted against the carbon your trees lock away. This guide explains how carbon credits work for tree planting, where…

Vitiforestry — the deliberate integration of trees into and around vineyards — is moving from research trials into working European wine estates. After two decades of treating vineyards as monocultures swept clean of everything but vines, a growing number of growers in France, Germany, Portugal and beyond are putting trees back: in scattered standards among…

Hedgerows are having a moment. After decades of removal and neglect, hedgerow restoration is now one of the most heavily supported land management activities in the UK and across Europe — backed by agri-environment funding, demanded by biodiversity targets, and increasingly specified in estate and farm plans in their own right rather than as an…

For foresters managing planting projects across borders — federal and state contracts in the US, Forestry Commission frameworks in the UK, NGO and corporate work spanning both — tree shelter standards are not a science question. They are a procurement question. A specifier needs to know exactly which test protocol a supplier holds, which body…

The UK wine industry has moved from cottage curiosity to recognised premium category in under twenty years. Sparkling wine from Sussex and Kent now competes with Champagne on quality, and new vineyards are being planted across southern England at a pace that has reshaped the agricultural map. For growers, contractors and consultants planning a new…

For conservation projects planting tens of thousands of trees, the question of which shelter to specify is no longer just “what will protect the tree?” — it is also “what do we leave behind?” The decision between Vigilis Bio vs standard tree shelters comes down to how a project balances up-front cost, end-of-life management and…