Forester

My day to day work in the forestry department can vary from carrying out thinning and clear-fell work with chainsaws, to using some of our machines to assist the others foresters with felling. During the winter we are focussing on planting which comprises many steps such as staking, making holes, tree selection, planting and tubing which you may have spotted throughout the estate.

I have worked at Holkham since July 2022. I was a trainee for just over a year and have been a qualified forester since then.

Before joining the Holkham Forestry Team in 2020, I was a Gardener at Pinewoods for three years.

Our job as Foresters at Holkham is so varied, we do so many different things. A few of my main roles include felling in thinning/clear fell operations, clearing wind blown trees, plantation maintenance, planting trees in the winter months, pruning our young trees and delivering biomass to Holkham’s biomass boilers in the park. The timber that is produced from our felling work is dried chipped and used in the boilers.