Coillte ends it long term organic forestry practice:

Coillte ends it long term organic forestry practice:
A recent tender spells the end of Coillte returning organic tree waste (brash) to Irish Forest soils. this signals the start of policy that will remove essential nutrients normally returned to the soil.
It may be argued that it will reduce fire hazard, but that's not the reason the brash is to be removed.
Ireland's forest company is signalling the start of industrial mining of the landscape.


Coillte, the Irish forest service are requesting expressions of interest for the provision of a forest brash bundling service for circa 20,000 tonnes annually (circa 60,000 brash bundles). The main elements of this service include the bundling and extraction of forest brash on Coillte clearfell sites within a 60 mile haulage distance of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. Coillte will manage the delivery of the brash bundles from the forest. The successful candidate will be paid per bundle extracted to forest roadside.
Candidates must have proven track record in timber harvesting operations.