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Latvijas Banka issues a symbolic collector coin, "Chestnut"
The European Innovation Act and the forest bioeconomy – what can Latvian forestry gain from it?
The “Trojan Horse” of Turkish Plywood – Growing Concerns Among European Timber Producers
Nature Conservation Agency invites donations for the restoration of nature tourism infrastructure damaged by the storm

Poll

Concern about gaps in the skills and knowledge of our pupils is voiced quite widely from time to time. Unfortunately, only when someone from outside Latvia has concluded as much. Why is that?
There is a political tendency to be busy, to invest, to make promises, but not to think about the results
If you have little knowledge yourself, you do not even know how or what you do not know...
A smart society is not always desirable or welcome
Many interests swirl around education. A "good result" is rarely mentioned among them

A lighter note

“Why are the trees here so big?”

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Collector coin “Chestnut”
Trees on agricultural land – perennial plantations, short-rotation coppice or agroforestry?!
The Baltics in the Kremlin's sights. How serious is the threat?

Notable

A walk around Purezers
From timber processing to winemaking
The future belongs to biomaterials!
Hemp is coming for a green economy, a healthy environment and people
New emissions requirements could "bury" traditional internal combustion engine cars
Flower thought to be extinct found in Myanmar
Wood-burning stoves can be used more efficiently
Dill. About them
Forest scientists want to be independent
Forest soil is like human skin!
Don't track mud into the city
What do lemonade making and gravel roads have in common? Both are linked to wood!
How to save Romania's 65-million-year-old surviving fish?
Rare European polypore species discovered in Eastern Vidzeme
Under the guise of pond-digging permits, unscrupulous operators have illegally established a sand and gravel quarry
Latvian forests will soon be home to many bears
The bear has returned!
Political culture and rational ignorance
How animals have helped shape the modern world
Estonian government may allow Estonian-Latvian offshore company to build a wind farm
Plans to fell 330 trees in Gauja National Park
Simplification will begin in a year (Reminder VI)
We do not learn from mistakes
Cannot take, cannot return
Wood is being used ever more widely: trends in wood usage in construction (Top 5)
Leopard thought to be extinct spotted in Taiwan
Negligence at work... Has anything changed in 15 years? (A reminder)
Scientist retires, criticising the silliness of "climate science"
Four days "immersed" in Latvian forests
Reaction speed of a bird of prey's eye (visual "acuity") measured for the first time
A year of stark successes and failures in industry