native woodland information notes, hedgerow surveying, silvicultural guidelines, training course development, etc. * Members of the Technical Advisory Panel with expertise specific to particular topics are asked by the CEO to join expert committees /sub groups to address tasks as they arise, i.e. Seppi Höna, Forest Inspector, Deer Management expertise, Forest Service.Ciaran Nugent, Forest Inspector, Deer Management expertise, Forest Service.

Dr Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, Botanist Emeritus NUIG.

Dr Janice Fuller, Forest Ecologist at Coillte.

Neil Foulkes, Hedge Conservation and Management consultant.

Dónall Flanagan, Nursery Stock Adviser, Teagasc.

Larry Behan, Native Tree and Shrub Nursery Stock Producer, None-so-Hardy Nurseries,.

Howard Fox, Lichenologist/Cryptogamic Botany.

Richard O'Callaghan, Aquatic Wetland Ecologist NPWS.

Chris Barron, Killarney National Park Education Centre, Invasive Species Management specialist.

Professor Fraser Mitchell, Woodland Palynology research, Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Michael Gormally, The Applied Ecology Unit, NUIG.

Eugene Curran, Forest Inspector, Forest Service.

David Brickenden, Woodland Contractor & Owner.

Jerry Hawe, Forestry Consultancy and Research.

Philip O'Dea, Research & Development, Coillte.

Dr Daniel Kelly, Woodland specialisation & research Fellow Emeritus, Botany TCD.

Jonathan Spazzi, Continuous Cover Forestry specialist, Teagasc.

Michael Doyle, Forestry Consultant with Broadleaf expertise (ex Coillte).

Dr Ruth Carden, expert in wild deer ecology and management.

Professor Emeritus Ted Farrell, Environmental research.

Paddy Woodworth, Environmental Journalist.

Dr Craig Bullock, Ecosystem Services/Natural Capital research, UCD.Dr Philip Blackstock, Forestry consultant.Derek Felton, Tree seed collection, Woodstock Seeds.Dr Aileen O Sullivan, Ecologist, Coillte.Ted Horgan, Forester (ex Coillte), Hardwoods research.Ken Sweeney, Coillte Teo., Continuous Cover Specialist.Katherine Duff, Ecologist, Forest Service.Dr Jenni Roche, Woodland Ecologist, NPWS.

Richard Schaible, Northern Ireland Forest Service and Native Woodland Development Group.Richard Nairn, Ecological consultant and Native Woodland Owner.Kevin Collins, Forest Inspector, Forest Service.WoI Administrative and Media Officer (Acting Secretary).Subsequent to a years teaching in Forest Management at GMIT, Galway, Declan was re-appointed as Project Manager of Woodlands of Ireland in September, 2004 and has held that until late 2019. In 2003, Ms Cara Doyle became Project Manager and oversaw the organisation of the Native Woodland Conference which was held in Galway in September 2004. John subsequently departed the project in November 2001 and Declan was again appointed as Project Manager in February 2002. From 1989 – 1998 he studied native woodland soils, land-use history and ecology in the Forest Ecosystem Research Group, and in the Zoology section of the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin.Īfter leaving Woodlands of Ireland to join the People’s Millennium Forests project in December 1999, Declan was succeeded by Mr John O’Reilly who maintained the momentum generated during the initial period. Declan had previously spent more than a decade working in native woodlands, primarily in a research capacity. As Project Manager, Dr Declan Little, was employed in August 1998 to co-ordinate activities leading towards the attainment of the objectives outlined.

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